The Ice Queen

Alice Hoffman is at her electrifying best in this fairy tale for grown-ups. The story begins with a little girl who makes a wish one snowy night and ruins her life. She grows up with a splinter of ice in her heart until one day standing by her kitchen window she is struck by lightning. Instead of killing her this cataclysmic event sparks off a new beginning. She seeks out Lazarus Jones a fellow lightning survivor. He is her opposite a burning man whose breath can boil water and whose touch scorches. As an obsessive love affair begins between them both are forced to hide their most dangerous secrets - what turned one to ice and the other to fire. The Ice Queen is a haunting story of passion loss second chances and the secrets that come to define us if we're not careful.