The year is 225 of the Arcane Renaissance, in the World of Vyen on the Continent of Atlantus. Avelina wakes in a strange mansion with gaps where her memory should be, under the care of the enigmatic Lord Ricardo. The fragments she can access generate a persistent and troubling sense of déjà vu — as if this place and these circumstances are something she has lived before. As the cold deepens and a sequence of eerie events unfolds around her, the groundskeeper Marcus begins uncovering truths about the mansion that nobody seems to want found. The path that opens is dangerous. What happened to Avelina, and what is being kept from her, are the questions the frozen nightmare is built around.