A smile crept across Oma Eline’s wrinkled face. “Come here, children,” she said, her voice almost a whisper. “I have a story for you.”
Gerda has heard her grandmother’s stories of magic and adventure all her life. But neither she nor her best friend Kay believe in them . . . until Kay is infected with slivers of snow dust and the Snow Queen arrives to claim them. When Kay disappears, everyone believes he is dead. Except Gerda.
When an accident lands her on the road to the fabled Ice Palace, Gerda’s choice is simple: run back to the comfort of her home, or venture into the unknown to find Kay. And with the ice burrowing deeper into Kay’s heart, Gerda is running out of time.
New friends, new enemies, and constant danger await Gerda on the road north, and she will have plenty of chances to turn back. When all seems lost, will she persevere? Or will the Snow Queen win Kay’s loyalty—and his life?
“It’s coming for us. It’s ready for its revenge.”
Blanche spends every day dreaming about adventure. But it won’t happen. Not in the miserable little farming county she lives in. Here all she can do is work, day in and day out, beside her worn and Blanche worried mother waiting for the day when she’ll be old enough to leave. Her only hope seems to be matchmaking her mother to the woodcutter who lives nearby. If she can get her mother to notice him.
Then the mysterious stranger shows up. And the animal attacks start. Soon, Blanche is caught up in a magical mystery that is everything she ever hoped for. But as the enemy grows more powerful, things start spiraling out of control. When Blanche’s family is threatened, will she be willing to stand up for them and risk all she has worked for? Or will she give way to the darkness that is coming for them all?