Known as The Ice Queen Anneliese Zander de St Phalle is one of the worlds most celebrated fashion designers. With an empire that stretches across continents shes a truly global brand in every sense. Yet despite her success shes a mystery; a reclusive disciplined perfectionist who rarely grants interviews. Shes successful & shes talented & thats all anyone needs to know. Anneliese never talks about her past
- not even to her only daughter Callan. Shes worked hard to leave it all behind her & its a time & place to which Anneliese will never return. Or so she thinks. Until at an exclusive New Years Eve party at her glamorous island hideaway a woman appears whom Anneliese has done her best to forget. On the cusp of her retirement at the height of Annelieses fame the stranger brings a story that demands to be told. To Annelieses horror the past cannot be left behind; it is here part & parcel of the present despite everything shes done to forget it