Peter is thrilled to join his parents on an expedition to Greenland, where his father studies global warming. Peter will get to skip school, drive a dogsled, and-finally-share in his dad's adventures. But on the ice cap, Peter struggles to understand a series of visions that both frighten and entice him. Thea has never seen the sun. Her extraordinary people have retreated to a secret world they've built deep inside the arctic ice. As Thea dreams of a path to Earth's surface, Peter's search for answers brings him ever closer to her hidden home.
I thought this was a really delightful book. The story starts with Peter as his father announces that they will be going to Greenland, and it seems that this will be an adventure/survival story along the lines of Peak by Roland Smith. The only hint of something a bit out of the ordinary are Peter's headaches. His mother has headaches, too, which sometimes send her retreating to her room for days at a time. But when Peter starts having them, I began to realize that they were not migraines as the description led me to believe, but something else. Peter has the ability to see things that are not right in front of him--not visions or dreams, but actual people, things, and events. Meanwhile, Thea is part of an underground community that fled the wider world generations back and is now growing to large for their limited land to sustain them. She is advocating finding a way back above ground but her grandmother, the council leader, is adamant that they stay where they are. There seems to be no connection between Peter and Thea (at times I even wondered whether Thea and her people were even human--maybe elves, fairies, or selkies?) but as circumstances bring them together, they learn that their lives have been twined for years.
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