Cassie lives with her father, a scientist, at a research station in the Arctic. When she meets a polar bear who tells her that her mother is not dead, as she had thought, but imprisoned at the end of the earth, Cassie desperately agrees to his price: marriage. But life in the polar bear's ice castle is neither cold nor terrifying, and Cassie comes to care for her bear husband. Until she makes a terrible mistake that sends her on a journey to save both her bear and her mother.
Sarah Beth Durst books are always lush, engrossing, and filled with pathos. This retelling of "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" effortlessly combines a coming-of-age story with romance and magic.
