A winter storm was all that brought them to Frost Hollow.

Stranded by deep snow in an isolated mountain village, Sir Alaric and Mira expect only to wait for the roads to reopen. Frost Hollow is small, ordinary, and accustomed to harsh winters. Its people share their food, tend one another’s fires, and endure the cold as generations before them have done.

Then an old shepherd dies peacefully in his bed.

No one finds it unusual.

Six days later, the village blacksmith dies the same way.

He had been strong, healthy, and working the day before.

When more deaths follow without wounds, illness, struggle, or any clear connection between the victims, Alaric begins searching for an explanation. Poison. Disease. Contaminated food or water. Something overlooked in the houses, the fields, or the frozen landscape surrounding them.

Each possibility leads nowhere.

And with the roads buried beneath snow, there is nowhere else to go.

As the chapel bell continues to toll, fear begins changing Frost Hollow. Neighbors who once depended upon one another begin watching one another instead. Memories contradict. Ordinary coincidences become suspicious. Doors are barred. Conversations stop when someone enters the room.

And for the first time since Mira has known him, Alaric faces a mystery that may not surrender simply because he refuses to stop asking questions.

Told years later through Mira’s memories of that winter, The Winter of Doubt is the sixth book in The Alaric Investigations—a story not only about unexplained deaths, but about what happens when certainty disappears and fear begins supplying answers of its own.