At sixteen, Minas mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone - has never beat at all, in fact, but shed always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, Mina forms a plan win the kings heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know love. The only catch is that shell have to become a stepmother. Fifteen year old Lynet looks just like her late mother, and one day she discovers why a magician created her out of snow in the dead