Vicki L. Weavil

How about a little teaser from CROWN OF ICE? Thyra Winther, the current Snow Queen speaks about her "home":At night the palace__ crystal halls are tinged sapphire. One of the first bits of magic that Voss taught me was to set the carved walls alight so that I__ not forced to walk the halls in darkness. I conjure a cold light that glows within the thick walls without melting the ice. I mastered this trick quickly once I knew what those shadows held. If I leave an area in darkness, they come__he girls who reigned as Snow Queen before me. __ must find it._ Their hollow words wind about me like a shroud. __he last piece. I must place it. Give it to me.

My parents lie somewhere beneath the snow, buried with my mortal life.