title: The Ice Queen: A Novel
author:  Alice Hoffman 
description: A solitary New Jersey librarian whose favorite book is a guide to suicide methods is struck by lightning in Alice Hoffman's superb novel, <i>The Ice Queen.</i> Orphaned at the age of eight after angrily wishing she would never see her mother again, our heroine found herself frozen emotionally: "I was the child who stomped her feet and made a single wish and in so doing ended the whole worldmy world, at any rate." Her brother Ned solved the pain of their mother's death by becoming a meteorologist: applying reason and logic to bad weather. Eventually, he invites our heroine to move down to Florida, where he teaches at a university. Here, while trying to swat a fly, she is struck by lightning (the resulting neurological damage includes an inability to see the color red). Orlon County turns out to receive two thirds of all the lightning strikes in Florida each year, and our heroine soon becomes drawn into the mysteries of lightning: the withering of trees and landscape near a strike, the medical traumas and odd new abilities of victims, the myths of renewal. Although a recluse, she becomes fascinated by a legendary local farmer nicknamed Lazarus Jones, said to have beaten death after a lightning strike: to have seen the other side and come back. The burning match to her cool reserve--her personal unguided tour through Hades--Lazarus will prove to be the talisman that restores her to girlhood innocence and possibility.
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  # Crashed on an Ice World
  
  
  ### Phoenix Adventures
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Anna Hackett
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Crashed on an Ice World
  
  
  Published by Anna Hackett
  
  
  Copyright 2017 by Anna Hackett
  
  
  Cover by Melody Simmons of [eBookindiecovers](http://ebookindiecovers.com/)
  
  
  Edits by [Tanya Saari](http://editortanya.blogspot.com.au/)
  
  
  ISBN (ebook): 978-1-925539-40-0
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places and incidents
  are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  Any resemblance to actual persons, events or places is coincidental. No part
  of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or
  electronic form.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [What readers are saying about Anna’s action
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  [Action Romance Box Set](part0004.html#3Q280-f6585a0107c440909e6640ef247324da)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [~ Official Document ~](part0005.html#4OIQ0-f6585a0107