A farmer went into the woods for firewood—but he found something chilling encased in ice.

Henry stomped his boots on the porch steps and stepped into the lodge, grateful for the warmth of the wood stove crackling in the corner. Shaking the chill from his coat, he reached for the phone on the counter.

There was only one person he trusted to help him make sense of this discovery: his cousin, Sophie Clarke. Sophie was an ecologist who had spent years studying Arctic ecosystems. Though she now lived in Pine Hollow, she’d worked on research expeditions as far north as Ellesmere Island.