Shadow Hart by Laura J. Underwood - Free

Rhoyd Smytheson and his family came to the village of Calydon on the way to a northern outpost in Ard-Taebh, but winter storms stopped them and forced them to shelter in the Hart's Hope Inn. Only now, dark powers are determined to stop Rhoyd and keep him from fulfilling his destiny as the Ard Magister. He must battle the coming of Long Winter and defeat the Shadow Hart or all hope is lost... But what can one small boy do against a creature of ancient power?