"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good fright... After Helen Bell's eyes are opened to see the invisible Rime folk who drift into our world from a realm called "Winter", she's compelled to go on the run into their snowy world to avoid being forced to battle in the quarrel of sword and bone. A death sentence for anyone who steps into the arena with the deranged winter queen. Whose soul crisped to frost long ago."--Back cover.

"Mila lives with her sisters, Pipa and Sanna, her brother Oskar, and their sled dogs in the forest where winter has held sway for five years, ever since their father disappeared; but now a strange scary man, flanked by twelve young boys, seems to have bewitched Oskar and taken him away--and Mila, convinced her brother is in danger, leads her sisters in a desperate journey across the frozen wild-lands to find their brother, and perhaps a way past an...