The ice under Thessaly Bend has never been just ice. Idris Kane always knew that. He just didn't know how much was about to wake up.
Wren Callahan's family is coming home, and they're bringing lawyers, surveyors, and a legal claim to the ground under the rink, the town, and Nonnie's kitchen table. Desmond Callahan doesn't believe in Kindling. He believes in mineral rights, and he has the paperwork to prove they're his.
With a baby due in the spring and something ancient stirring in the old shafts every time a drill bites into rock that should have stayed untouched, Idris and Wren have to figure out how to protect a family, a town, and each other, before Desmond's company digs up something that was never meant to come back to the surface.