"A MOVING TALE of love, loss, forgiveness, and spiritual renewal, The Ice Queen is one of Alice Hoffman’s finest novels."

--Dorman .T. Shindler, Denver Post

"MAGIC with intermittent flashes of reality The transformation of a woman through passion is at the heart of The Ice Queen."

--Anita Sama, USA Today

"NOTHING LESS THAN STELLAR Hoffman reminds us how little distance there is between magic and mundane."

--Amy Waldman, People

"Beneath the spell Alice Hoffman casts with her DECEPTIVELY BEGUILING STORYTELLING,the author reveals the darkest human truths. Hoffman’s brand of magic isn’t fanciful. It’s fearless."

--Ellen Kanner, Miami Herald

A woman who leads a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance, one day utters an idle wish to be struck by lightning and her wish is granted. Instead of killing her, this cataclysmic event marks a strange and powerful new beginning as the woman soon finds herself drawn into a passionate relationship with another survivor of a lightning strike, a mysterious stranger who harbors dark secrets.Their affair becomes the center of a riveting story of loss, love, and redemption, a novel that reveals Alice Hoffman at the very height of her powers.