This from Wossname ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WOSSNAME/ ):
WINTERSMITH — ADVANCE PEEK
At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.
At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil.
At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you’re thirteen.
But the Wintersmith isn’t exactly a boy. He is Winter itself — snow, gales, icicles — all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.
Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch – now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance — the crossover from summer to winter – she does what no one has ever done before and leaps into the dance, into the oldest story there ever is, and draws the attention of the Wintersmith himself…
As Tiffany-shaped snowflakes hammer down on the land, can Tiffany deal with the consequences of her actions? Even with the help of Granny Weatherwax and the Nac Mac Feegle – the fightin’, thievin’ pictsies who are prepared to lay down their lives for their ‘big wee hag’ …
It’s going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn’t survive until Spring — Spring won’t come.
Publication date: US October 1, 2006, price $16.99
UK September 28, 2006
