In the Magic Land of Ice and Winter…

The weather was starting to warm up. Every hundred years, the Dance of Winter needed to be performed to keep the magic land frozen and the snow thick on the ground. Only an Ice Princess could perform the dance, but choosing an Ice Princess was never easy. She couldn’t be one of the ice sylphs who lived in the land; she had to be a very special human girl with ice-skating deep in her heart and certain other unique qualities.

In her study at the Magic Ice-skating Academy, Madame Letsworth, the headteacher, rested her chin on her steepled fingers and waited. Twelve human girls had been selected as possible Ice Princesses. Soon they would start to arrive. Would one of them be suitable? In six weeks, she would know the answer.

For now, all Madame Letsworth could do was wait…