In a world broken like a reflection in a broken mirror, only the Valley of the Seven Wells is calm and unchanging. But blood has been spilled here too, and the boy Jacob has to go to the City to get a dose of hatred. Hatred in the City does not boil in a cauldron under a golden lid, but is sold in an ordinary pharmacy. And three Lords rule here - Famine, Pestilence and War, who defeated the Snow Queen in the hundred-year war. However, the Queen's shadow still hovers over the City, and Jacob receives her kiss and a shard of the ice mirror in his heart. From now on he is Kay, and he will have to put together a word from the fragments of mirrors. But which one?