The Flame of the North

Ten-year-old Mica hates the cold. Yet he's bound by duty-and prophecy-to rule over the City of Winter as his grandfather's heir. All signs seem to indicate that something is wrong and the reappearance of the Yuki-Onna in the Painted Hall is an additional worrisome detail…The Flame of the North (North #2) follows Danis & Hana's son as he attempts to fulfil the last portion of Dragon's Prophecy. Anna Tan grew up in Malaysia, the country that is not Singapore. In 2015, she traded in a life of annoying other bean counters for one of annoying the online world with questions about life and death and everything in between. The answer is sometimes 42. Sometimes they try to eat you.When she is not writing or nitpicking over other writers' copy, she can be found reading a book or attempting to organise her room. A curse binds the City of Winter and the Dragon's Prophecy holds the key to breaking it. But will a poor fisherman from the South have the means to fulfil the prophecy? Or will the foreignness of the North itself repel him and his efforts?The Painted Hall Collection is a series of short, old-school fairy-tales designed to open your eyes to wonder.