After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears…
Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow’s Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. In the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, Jon Snow has taken up the mantle as Lord Commander, and apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly is ordered to bring a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.
With the heat plots, intrigue and battle threatening to engulf Westeros, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.