Before The Dreaming, Kathleen Wiseman's primary concern was rebranding her business, known to the small town of Thistle Grove as Jenkins' Jewelers. But when reports of preternatural transformations across the globe reach middle America, normal as she knows it turns nightmarish. Those who contract acute metamorphic oneirosis slip into strange dreams-and if they awaken, they are irrevocably changed. Now, the scarlet-skinned woman in the mirror is not someone Kathleen recognizes, and the story etched on her skin in invisible ink is more tragedy than she can bear to relive. Kindling abilities beyond her control, Kathleen holds her old life to the fire of a renewed world rife with wonders and horrors alike. Fire and Ice is a contemporary fantasy that observes a global phenomenon's splinters under a jeweler's loupe.