HarperCollins, Aug 2004, 17.99, 512 pp.
ISBN: 0060724749
The malevolent Snow-walker Gudrun came from the ice to use the Ragnar patriarch to become the ruler of the realm. She married Lord Jarl Ragnar, who became her puppet. Recently, she sent a blizzard to put down an uprising by the rightful ruling family, the Wulfings. Using her spouse, she exiles the next generation of Wulfings, cousins Jessa Horolsdaughter and Thorkil Harroldsson, to remote Thrasseshall on the edge of the world. There they will live with her son, rumored to be a monster that no one outside that isolated frozen hold has seen since he was born.
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Jessa meets Gudron's offspring Kari Ragnarsson, who is a Snow-walker with his mother's powers but is different due to the upbringing of his ”caretaker” Brochael Gunnarsson who has showered him with love and understanding. Kari is the only hope to free her people from the icy grip of the evil sorceress, but can he depose his mother and if so, can those who care for him like her keep him from becoming a chip off the maternal block?
Harriet Klausner
The review of this Book prepared by Harriet Klausner
