Elliott Archway would strip away his own tenderness and lay down his life for upperclassman James Wilde.
At ?scwulf College, the hibernal tradition forces every student to plead for mercy, and each winter one of them is chosen as a living sacrifice in the frozen forest.
Their all-consuming passion turns lethal when cruel classmates volunteer a terminally ill student for that offering.
After a sacrilegious killing of the wrong young man on sacred ground, the students mean to die without ever confessing what was done.
Winter still demands further sacrifices, and neither man will hesitate to destroy himself or everyone around them to keep the other.
