In a village of the frozen north, a child is born possessed by a
strange and alien spirit, only to be cast out by her tribe and taken
in by the mysterious winter witches of Irrisen, a land locked in
permanent magical winter. Farther south, a young mapmaker with a
penchant for forgery discovers that his sham treasure maps have begun
striking gold. This is the story of Ellasif, a barbarian shield maiden
who will stop at nothing to recover her missing sister, and Decclan,
the ne'er-do-well young spellcaster-turned-forger who wants only to
prove himself to the woman he loves. Together they'll face monsters,
magic, and the fury of Ellasif's own cold-hearted warriors in their
quest to rescue the lost child. Yet when they finally reach the
ice-walled city of Whitethrone, where trolls hold court and wolves
roam the streets as men, will it be too late to save the girl from the
forces of darkness?