As George R. R. Martin's magnificent epic continues, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In the east, many are seeking Daenerys, last scion of House Targaryen, who rules as queen of a city built on dust and death. Among them the dwarf, Tyrion Lannister, who has escaped King's Landing, wrongfully condemned to death for the murder of his nephew, King Joffrey. To the north lies the great Wall of ice and stone. Eddard Stark's bastard son Jon Snow is 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, but he has enemies both in the Watch and beyond the Wall, where the wildling armies are massing for an assault. On all sides bitter conflicts are re-igniting, played out by a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all...