A magical story of passion, loss, and renewal, The Ice Queen is Alice Hoffman at her electrifying best. The Third Angel, which weaves together the stories of three women all hopelessly in love with the wrong men, was published in 2008. As an obsessive love affair begins between them, both hide their most dangerous secrets-what happened in the past that turned one to ice and the other to fire. In Alice Hoffman same Cape Cod farmhouse, and The Ice Queen (2005) details how a woman’s life changes for the better after she is struck by lightning. When she finds him, he is her perfect opposite, a burning man whose breath can boil water and whose touch scorches. Perhaps this stranger who has seen death face to face can teach her to live without fear. She goes in search of Lazarus Jones, a fellow survivor who was struck dead, then simply got up and walked away. But instead of ending her life, this cataclysmic event sparks a strange and powerful new beginning. The unnamed narrator has been racked by guilt since she was eight, when she petulantly wished that her mother would disappear. Then one day she utters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by lightning. THE ICE QUEEN by Alice Hoffman RELEASE DATE: ApThe veteran, bestselling author ( Blackbird House, 2004, etc.) takes risksmost of which pay offin her dark tale of a woman literally struck by lightning. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance. From the bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.
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