The Red Queen has placed her players on the chessboard...

Winter keeps Prince Yalan Kendet away from the long-awaited luxury of his southern palace. And although the North is the homeland of his partner, the warrior Snorri ver Snagason, he also really wants to leave. Because the Viking is ready to challenge Hell itself to bring his wife and children back to the world of the living. He has Loki's key - and now all he needs to do is find the door.

While everyone is waiting for the ice to melt, the Dead King plans to reclaim what almost belonged to him - the key to the underworld - so that his dead subjects were able to rebel and take power into their own hands.