In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north brew sinister and supernatural forces which are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lies the capital city, King's Landing, where plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror escape no one. Allies and their enemies hang perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.