Cassidy Cane goes by many titles - archeologist, anthropologist, adventurer - but none more fitting than that given to her on some strange worlds: Slipstreamer.
Facing uncertainty as her life as a Slipstreamer begins to intrude on her career and a professor and archeologist, Cassidy escapes a fight against the elements against only to become ensnared in a world of political intrigue as she investigates the exile of the President-elect of Impasto Then it's back to a snow-covered tundra where she must defeat the Tuurngait, a polar creature of myth and legend that guards an impossible disc with the power to run cities on clean energy for generations. Can she survive this winter of her heart?