Conceal, Don't Feel

Elsa is the future Queen of Arendelle, and her days are crowded with duty and doubt. She wonders what kind of ruler she will be and when she will be expected to choose a suitor. Underneath it all sits a lingering sense that a piece of herself has always been absent.

Then her parents die without warning. Elsa has to settle those questions far sooner than she hoped, taking the throne alone. The crown leaves her lonelier than before, with no one nearby to share the weight of the kingdom.

Strange powers soon begin to show themselves. With them come scraps of childhood memory that seem to have been wiped away, and among those fragments stands a girl who looks oddly familiar. Elsa cannot say who she is, only that the face feels known.

Elsa wants to close the gap she has felt all her life. That means a dangerous trek across her frozen kingdom to break a terrible curse. The trip is harrowing, and at the end of it waits a missing Princess of Arendelle. Whether Elsa can find her, and what the answer says about the emptiness she has carried, is the question the book turns on.