The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approacheslike an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave theirvillages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. Fromthere, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards theWall. Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown in the Kingdom of the North,but his defences are ranged against attack from the South, the land ofHouse Stark's enemies the Lannisters. His sisters are trapped there, deador likely yet to die, at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey orhis depraved mother Cersei, regent of the Iron Throne. And Daenerys Stormbornwill return to the land of her birth to avenge the murder of her father,the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne.
