In a village of the frozen north, a child is born possessed by a strange andalien spirit, only to be cast out by her tribe and taken in by the mysteriouswinter witches of Irrisen, a land locked in permanent magical winter. Farthersouth, a young mapmaker with a penchant for forgery discovers that his shamtreasure maps have begun striking gold. This is the story of Ellasif, abarbarian shield maiden who will stop at nothing to recover her missing sister, and Decclan, the ne'er-do-well young spellcaster-turned-forger who wantsonly to prove himself to the woman he loves. Together they'll facemonsters, magic, and the fury of Ellasif's own cold-hearted warriors intheir quest to rescue the lost child. Yet when they finally reach the ice-walledcity of Whitethrone, where trolls hold court and wolves roam the streets as men, will it be too late to save the girl from the forces ofdarkness?
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