Olejar Books

Known as ´The Ice Queen´, Anneliese Zander de St Phalle is one of the world´s most celebrated fashion designers. With an empire that stretches across continents, she´s a truly global brand, in every sense. Yet despite her success, she´s a mystery; a reclusive disciplined perfectionist who rarely grants interviews. She´s successful and she´s talented, and that´s all anyone needs to know.

Anneliese never talks about her past - not even to her only daughter, Callan. She´s worked hard to leave it all behind her and it´s a time and place to which Anneliese will never return. Or so she thinks.

At an exclusive New Year´s Eve party at her glamorous island hideaway, a woman appears whom Anneliese has done her best to forget. On the cusp of her retirement, at the height of Anneliese´s fame, the stranger brings a story that demands to be told. To Anneliese´s horror, the past cannot be left behind; it is here, part and parcel of the present, despite everything she´s done to forget it.