Kai Meyer » Frost Fire « Coverillustration by Joachim Knappe 12+, June 2005 304 pages, 14.0 x 21.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-5441-8 hardcover 6,95 € (D) Rights sold: Korean, Czech, Russian, Finish, Polish, Greek, Dutch, Turkish, Romanian, Japanese

“Where the night and the north come to an end the stronghold of the Snow Queen floats above the mists”.

From the beginning of time the Snow Queen has ruled over the white desert at the edge of the world. Her realm is cold and her heart made of ice. But then the young magician Tamsin Spellwell succeeds in doing what no-one else has dared to do before - she steals an icicle from the ice heart of the Snow Queen, in order to destroy the tyrant's power. In St Petersburg, in the iciest winter ever known, the two encounter one another again. They engage in a fantastic magic duel - yet in the end it is not magic that determines the winner, but the courage of Tamsin's young friend...
In his new major novel Frost Fire, best-selling author Kai Meyer skilfully weaves fairy-tale elements into an imaginary 19th-century St Petersburg, creating a new world with a magic of its own.

Awarded the Corine 2005 international book prize.

Kai Meyer published his first novel when he was 23 years old. Since then he has written about forty ...