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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Durst, Sarah Beth.

Ice / Sarah Beth Durst.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: A modern-dyretellingof“Esto’theSunWesto’theMoon”inwhicheighteen-year-old

Cssielernsththergrndmother’sfirytleistruewhenPolrBerKingcomestoclimherfor

his bride and she must decide whether to go with him and save her long-lost mother, or continue

helping her father with his research.

ISBN 978-1-4169-8643-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4169-9689-7 (eBook)

[1. Fairy tales. 2. Polar bears—Fiction. 3. Supernatural—Fiction. 4. Scientists—Fiction. 5. Arctic

regions—Fiction.] I. East of the sun and west of the moon. II. Title.

PZ8.D972Ice 2009

[Fic]—dc22

2009008618

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For my husband, Adam,

with love.

I would go east of the sun and west of the moon for you.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’DLIKETOTHNKthepolrbersrcticfoxesndcriboufortheirptiencendkindwordsof

encourgementduringthewritingofthisbookI’dlsoliketothnkmyspectculrgentndre

Somberg, and my fabulous editor, Karen Wojtyla, as well as Sarah Payne, Emily Fabre, and all the

other amazing people at Simon & Schuster. Special thanks as well to Tamora Pierce, Bruce Coville,

and Thomas (Sully) Sullivan for all their advice and kindness.

Also, thanks to my friends for believing in me, especially Amy Johnson and Rick Keuler for all their

encouraging e-mails, and thank you to everyone who answered my obscure research questions.

Thank you as well to John Mastrobattista, Rob Harris, and my Target/Blackbaud team (past and

present) for all their support.

And finally, many thanks and much love to my family. I am so lucky to have all of you in my life—the

family I was born into, the family I married into, my wonderful children, and my dream-come-true

husband. I love you all beyond the ends of the earth.

PROLOGUE

TheNorthWind’sDughter

ONCEUPONTIMEtheNorthWindsidtothePolrBerKing‘Stelmedughterndwhenshe

growsshewillbeyourbride’”

Four-year-old Cassie clutched her quilt and stared at her grandmother. Tall and straight, Gram

lookedlikegenerlSheperchedstifflyontheedgeofCssie’sbedShehdmhognycnein

her left hand. Tonight, Dad was away from the station, which meant Cassie would hear the story.

Gram never told it when Dad was home. It was the only story she ever told.

“ndsothePolrBerKingkidnppedhumnchildndbroughthertotheNorthWindndshe

was raised with the North Wind as her father and the West, South, and East Winds as her uncles. She

grew into a beautiful, but lonely, young woman. One day, while the Winds were gone (as they often

were)shemethumnmnShebefriendedhimnditwsn’tlongbeforetheyfellinlove

“WhenthePolrBerKingcmetoclimhisbridesherefusedhimHerhert, she said, belonged to

nother‘Iwouldnothvenunwillingwife’hetoldher‘Butyourftherhsmdepromiseto

me’

“KnowingthepowerofmgicpromisetheNorthWind’sdughtersoughttocounteritwithher

ownbrgin‘ThenIwillmkepromisetoyou’theNorthWind’sdughterreplied‘Bringmeto

mylovendhideusfrommyftherndwhenIhvedughtershewillbeyourbride’ndsothe

BercrriedtheNorthWind’sdughtertoherhumnhusbndndhidthemintheicendsnow.

“ngrytheNorthWindtorecrossthelndsendskyButhecouldnotfindthemForlong

whiletheNorthWind’sdughterndherhusbndwerehppy

“IntimethewomnhdchildPssingbytheWestWindherdthebirthndhurriedto tell the

North Wind where his daughter could be found. With the strength of a thousand blizzards, the North

Wind swooped down onto the house that held his daughter, her husband, and their newborn baby.

He would have torn the house to shreds, but the woman rnoutside‘Tkeme’shecried‘butleve

mylovedoneslone!’

“TheNorthWindblewhersfrshecould—as far as the castle beyond the ends of the world.

Thereshefelltothegroundndwscpturedbytrolls”CssieherdthebedcreksGram stood.

Herrichvoicewssofternow“Itissidthtwhenthewindhowlsfromthenorthitisforhislost

dughter”

Cssieblinkedhereyesopen“ndMommyisstillthere?”

Grmwsshdowinthedoorwy“Yes”

PART ONE

The Land Of The Midnight Sun

ONE

ONCE UPON A TIME, in a land far to the north, there lived a lovely maiden . . .

Ltitude72°13’30”N

Longitude152°06’52”W

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