The story of the Ice People will move to a lost branch of the family—the son of Tarya, who grew up far from Norway and from his many relatives. Mikael Cornelius Lind grew up in loneliness, knowing nothing about either the Ice People or the curse that haunts the descendants of the evil sorcerer Tengel. All his life, Mikael fights the darkness in his soul and the persistent horror that stalks him. He has no one to rely on and no one to ask for help—and, to make things worse, he gets pulled into a dangerous political game…