What happens when a child loses everything — his mother, his season, his senses — and is forced to find meaning in a world stripped bare of warmth? This is the question at the heart of The Grey Winter of the Enslaved by Stefanos Sampanis, the opening volume of The Journey of the Wish series, and it is asked not through philosophical monologue but through a story so inventive, so layered with mythology and tenderness, that the answer unfolds across every chapter like a flower blooming in frost. Set in a world divided between two eternal seasons — Spring and Winter — this novel introduces us to Glimm, a young fairy-child of Spring who witnesses his mother’s murder at the hands of rogue Orcs just days before the Equinox. Stranded in Winter with the Black Stigma of a monstrous Jackal scarring his shoulder, Glimm is offered an impossible choice by King Semela, ruler of the Mount of Billows: accept the curse of the Seven Gods and become one of Winter’s Enslaved — losing his sight …