The North Wind (The Four Winds, #1)

by Alexandria Warwick

My current selection tells the tale of a war hero and his decade-long journey home after a ten-year war. His wife sits at home in Ithaca, weaving a burial shroud by day and unraveling her progress by night to keep the suitors at bay.

Odyssey reference, yay!

The land is naught but brittle, frozen wood, yet here lies a glass-encased heart, warm and beating and green.

MAYBE WE CAN BE ALONE together.

EPILOGUE (In which the North Wind attempts to bake a cake)

It had taken the day, but he had done it. He, Boreas, the North Wind, had baked a cake. The sweet concoction had been a worthy adversary, but he had prevailed, in the end. Now to decorate.