Unable to control her tendency to burst into flame, twelve-year-old Ember, a dragon transformed into a girl by her foster father, is sent to Antarctica where she tries to save ice dragons from extinction.

"Sam Fox is on vacation with his family in Antarctica when their ski plane crashes on the ice. As the unstable ice shelf cracks apart, Sam and his younger brother become separated from the rest of the group. Before long, they're stranded on a wobbly ice flow. Just when it seems things couldn't get any worse, a massive creature emerges from the deep. A creature with huge jaws, and rows and rows of enormous teeth"--Back cover.