Troy Chance is innocently taking pictures of the Saranac Lake ice palace when she discovers the body of her roommate's boyfriend encased in the ice. Tobin Winslow was born rich, but had been playing at a blue-collar life. And when Troy starts questioning how a wealthy kid from Greenwich, Connecticut, ends up frozen in an upstate New York lake, she has no idea of the web of deceit and danger she will become entangled in. What's the secret the Winslow family guards so closely? Who's trying to get hold of Tobin's belongings? Who was he trying so desperately to protect? To uncover the truth, Troy must seek the answers etched into the dark side of the ice.