Across the city, Holly's magical dolls come to life and draw their children to the park. To reach her sleigh and escape, Holly and Christopher must confront Herrikhan in Central Park. But Herrikhan is still searching for Holly, and he casts a spell that causes summer weather to grip New York. When Christopher finds her in his workshop, they share a moment and discover that they are destined to fall in love. Holly realizes that Christopher is the child whose act of generosity created her eighteen years ago. Behind the formerly locked doors of Christopher Carroll's workshop, she finds an old letter from her father thanking Christopher for a precious gift. She flees to the only place where she feels safe: the toy shop. When he presents her with an expensive necklace and insists that she take off her protective locket to try it on, she realizes that he is Herrikhan in disguise.
He sweeps her away to the opera, where she is introduced to the glittering society of the Empire City. Occasionally, she catches glimpses of Christopher Carroll, the enigmatic young owner of the toy shop, and feels curiously drawn to him, but the arrival of the dashing Mr. She lands in New York at the height of the Gilded Age and finds employment at a toy shop, where she makes magical dolls that reflect children's dreams. When a rare magical rainbow forms over the locked gates of Forever, presenting an opportunity to escape, she harnesses her team of magical reindeer and flies them out of the Land of Forever. She is distraught to find that her page is blank she has contributed nothing to the mortal world.
The winter she turns seventeen, Holly discovers the Great Book of Forever, a book recording the contributions of all the denizens of Forever to the mortal world. For solace, she turns to art and learns to fashion beautiful dolls patterned on the mortal children she watches through her magic telescope. Though tutored by such legends as Shakespeare and Michelangelo, she lives a lonely existence. Princess Holly grows up confined to her icy chambers to protect her frozen heart. But at her christening, the ancient warlock Herrikhan casts a curse that sets her heart in ice and locks the gates of Forever, trapping the immortals inside. The immortals and magical creatures of the Kingdom of Forever celebrate the birth of a baby princess, Holly. Frontispiece from the Kindle edition of The Legend of Holly Claus
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