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Jill Criswell is a writer of Young Adult Historical Fantasy. She was born and raised in the swamps of northeastern Florida. She earned degrees in English and Psychology and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida. Her greatest passion, besides reading and writing, is traveling the world; she’s visited fifty countries across six continents, falling in love with places like Iceland, Namibia, and Cambodia. She works as a university English teacher and lives in South Carolina, near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, with her husband and daughter (who is named after a volcano in Iceland).

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Average rating: 3.86 · 1,587 ratings · 358 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Beasts of the Frozen Sun (Frozen Sun Saga, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 1,094 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kingdom of Ice and Bone (Frozen Sun Saga, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Souls of Fire and Steel (Frozen Sun Saga, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“He was carving me. Marking me. I whimpered as blood dripped down my neck. 'Mine,' he said.
A threat and a promise.”
― Jill Criswell, Beasts of the Frozen Sun

tags: draki, fantasy, the-dragon, villain, villains, young-adult-fantasy

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“He is everything you fear, and worse. He is also everything you hope, and more.”
― Jill Criswell, Beasts of the Frozen Sun

tags: fantasy, fear, hope, love, romantic, young-adult-fantasy

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“I am a beast to them. You are the only one who lets me be a man.”
― Jill Criswell, Beasts of the Frozen Sun

tags: fantasy, lira, love, reyker, romantic

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“I am a beast to them. You are the only one who lets me be a man.”
― Jill Criswell, Beasts of the Frozen Sun

tags: fantasy, lira, love, reyker, romantic

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“He is everything you fear, and worse. He is also everything you hope, and more.”
― Jill Criswell, Beasts of the Frozen Sun

tags: fantasy, fear, hope, love, romantic, young-adult-fantasy

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“The blade hovered between us. I could kill him. He could kill me. That’s how it was meant to be—there could be nothing else between us now.”
― Jill Criswell, Beasts of the Frozen Sun

tags: fantasy, hate-to-love, love, romance, young-adult-fantasy

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“I brushed my fingers over the black flames of his warrior-mark. There were secrets behind these markings. This man was full of secrets, and I wanted to unravel them.”
― Jill Criswell, Beasts of the Frozen Sun

tags: fantasy, love, romance, romantic, secrets, young-adult-fantasy

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“He was carving me. Marking me. I whimpered as blood dripped down my neck. 'Mine,' he said.
A threat and a promise.”
― Jill Criswell, Beasts of the Frozen Sun

tags: draki, fantasy, the-dragon, villain, villains, young-adult-fantasy

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