Winter's War: The Wolves of Essos 5 ASOIAF

The crossing is done. The sands and fighting pits of Essos are a distant memory, replaced by the freezing winds and blinding midnight flurries of the Weeping Water. Backed by the unmatched wealth of the Iron Bank and the sovereign fire of Daenerys Targaryen, Carn Stark has returned to a fractured homeland to fulfill a terminal deathbed vow. ​Roose Bolton and his bastard Ramsey sit smugly in Winterfell's stolen seat, completely blind to the northern contingency plan sailing straight toward their blind spot. They believe the Stark lineage is broken. They have no idea that a 365-pound giant encased in Qohor-forged blackened steel has just turned the tide. ​Operation The Flayed Hearth is live. Slipping through the dense northern fog on specialized Manderly longships, Carn and his elite vanguard brotherhood—the Wolves of Essos—are moving to liquidate the Dreadfort’s skeleton garrison in a single afternoon. Backed by a silent, 350-pound shadow-direwolf and the airborne terror of three dragons, Carn is about to turn the Boltons' ancestral home into a secure forward base, cutting off their lines of retreat and rewriting the rules of northern warfare. ​Winter is not coming. It is here, it is brutal, and it answers to the Wolf’s steel and the Dragon’s law.