When the winters stopped, so did he. The world thrived by balance. Then came The Great Thaw – three long years without snow, without cold, and the ancient things that walked amongst it. Belsnickel was one of them. A shadow from old. When the frost vanished, so did he. But now the winter’s back. And Belsnickel has changed. Only this isn’t the same thing people once feared and respected. The long sleep has turned him cruel, and the world he’s woken to … naughty. At a remote lodge buried in snow, Ben and his family are about to learn what happens when a forgotten legend wakes up angry and resentful. That’s when he finds them.