The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone could remember. Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon.In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adara?s home. And only a winter child?and the ice dragon who loved her?could save her world from utter destruction.