Ice Like Fire is the second novel in Sara Raasch's Snow Like Ashes trilogy, a young-adult fantasy set in the kingdoms of Primoria.
It has been three months since the Winterians were freed and Angra, Spring's king, disappeared. Meira wants nothing more than for her people to be safe. When Cordellan debt forces the Winterians to dig their mines for payment, they unearth something powerful and possibly dangerous: Primoria's lost chasm of magic.
Theron sees the find as an opportunity. With magic on that scale, the world could finally stand against threats like Angra. Meira fears what it could unleash, because the last time the world had access to so much magic, it spawned the Decay. When the king of Cordell orders the two of them across the kingdoms of Primoria to uncover the chasm's secrets, Meira uses the journey to gather support for keeping it sealed and Winter safe, even where that puts her at odds with Theron.
In Jannuari, Mather is left with a Winter still raw from occupation and newly vulnerable to Cordell's growing oppression. He decides to take his kingdom's security into his own hands. As the web of power and deception draws tighter, Meira begins to wonder whether she should be fighting not just for Winter, but for the world.