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 & 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 & 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 & the other to fire The Ice Queen is a haunting story of passion loss second chances & the secrets that come to define us if we're not careful