Routed from her glacial palace in the Frozen March, Salamasca has fled to the Eastern Kingdom to lick her wounds and gather her strength once more. The Kingdom of Illyander had earned a temporary peace with its victory over her ice orc armies, but while the Ice Queen still lives, she remains a threat to all who walk Aronshae. No one knows this better than the Ironwright twins, Sasha and Katya, blessed and cursed by the Great Mother with the power of her avatar, Akor'shi-kai. With this costly gift, the Snowhaven sisters have the mystical strength to oppose Salamasca, who has upset the scales of Aronshae's balance. Jared, Talas, and the Ironwright twins journey to the mysterious East, a land filled with strange peoples and even stranger customs, to end Salamasca's threat once and for all. In the meantime, the Ice Queen has reunited with her old mentor, Luzige, and her reanimated servant, Roane, to raise an army of Easterners to crush Illyander and bring all of Aronshae under her heel. Gathering allies and enemies along their way, the Illyanders hope to finally destroy the Empress of Ice, knowing all the while that victory or defeat will mean death for the twins as they are consumed by the power of Akor'shi-kai. Will the Illyanders be in time to stop the Ice Queen's rise to power or are they only rushing to their deaths at the hands of an even more powerful adversary? As if matters hadn't become complicated enough, the dragons have returned.

The Empress of Ice has plagued the Illyander Kingdom for generations. From her Glacial Palace in the Frozen March, she strengthens her magic and builds her army comprised of savage ice orcs and men alike. With the addition of her fearsome Shadow Walker assassins, able to traverse the Void, and her Shadow Drakes, the Ice Queen has now become a threat to all of Aronshae. With the rise of adversity so too champions are born from its conflicts. In a remote pass in the World's Edge Mountains lies the town of Snowhaven, renowned home of Illyander's Warrior and Sorcerer Schools. Two young people, twin sisters, who have known its community and family their entire lives befriend a mysterious stranger, who has been alone for as long as he can remember. After strange events touch all their lives, the three find themselves drawn together and embroiled in the Ice Queen's plot to claim the world as her own empire that would mirror the horrors festering in the dark caves below her glacial fortress. As the three youths journey throughout the world of Aronshae on their quest for answers, even more questions are raised as they find out more about each other, themselves and their strange emerging powers.

Spellbound is about the adventures of two young people, twin sisters who have known community and family their entire lives. Along the way, they befriend a mysterious stranger who has been alone for as long as he can remember. After strange events touch all their lives, the three find themselves drawn together and then embroiled in a plot to overthrow the Kingdom of Illyander by an ancient enemy long thought dead. As they journey through the world of Aronshae on their quest for answers, even more questions are raised as they find out more about each other, themselves and their strange emerging powers.