Snow is everywhere. It crashes in Paris, rains down in Amsterdam, and covers London. A storm forces eighteen-year-old Samantha to stay for a day in an unfamiliar city, the capital of Great Britain. During this day, she lives her whole life: first, two young men save a girl from a robbery, then one of them falls in love with her, and then... The British Queen dies. Francois Place accustomed readers to fantasy, fairy tales and adventures, but now he seems to offer us a typical youth novel about first love, chance encounters and forced separations. But it's not that simple. Dozens of ordinary and not quite ordinary events take place within 24 hours in snowy London. One of the cameras captures Samantha's meeting with a little Indian boy, Khan, and next to him is what looks like a ghostly tiger. Detectives Emma Hardy and Stuart Nigel are at a dead end: they are investigating an attack on an elderly woman, but all reasonable explanations fail. This almost real story still has a subtle touch of fantasy - or a fairy tale. Without him, neither the detectives, nor Samantha, nor the readers will be able to unravel everything that is happening. What about love, meetings, partings? Who knows, maybe they are the ones who are most important! “The Queen in the Snow” is completely different from the historical fantasy by François Place “The Prisoner of the Twelve Provinces” published in “Compass Guide” in the translation of the same Nina Khotinskaya or the play “The Marquis Keith de la Balene” in translation of the classic by Mikhail Yasnov. And yet the master’s hand is recognizable: the same flying letter, the same atmospheric and picturesque quality, the same childish faith in miracles. And for sure, teenagers and young adults will love this book just as they loved The Prisoner.