Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, LadyNore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is usingan ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding andexact her revenge.

Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over hermother, Lady Nore, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods.Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court ofTeeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. She believesherself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the nightstreets. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whomshe was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.


Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative. He's on a missionthat will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren's help. But if she agrees, it willmean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannottrust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind.