She is the Ice Queen out of a childhood story, silver-haired and imperious, and she pulls her carriage up beside a stranded ice-cream magnate in the middle of a blizzard. Warmth in her palace is something a person has to earn, and her garden of frozen statues explains what happened to everyone before. Thirty chapters of servitude, a bargain broken, a shard of her heart, and a hunt where the prey stops running.