In Christina’s world, boys can control water and girls can control fire. Which sounds wonderful, except that water beats fire. So in Christina’s world, boys rule over girls and have turned the warm kingdom of Vartanis into the evil empire of Andromeno, a world of snow and ice too cold for girls to survive in.Christina, her sisters, and her mother are forbidden to go to school, fight, lead, or do anything boys can do and spend their lives inside their igloos cooking and cleaning. But when a mysterious old woman reveals that Christina is the Chosen One, Christina must learn to unleash the true potential of fire. Only then can she take down the empire and raise a kingdom where fire and water and boys and girls can live together again. But she’ll find that the odds are stacked infinitely against her and usurping power in this empire will be more difficult than beating water with fire.