Frozen is a stand along short story by Meljean Brook. Olivia is heading to her family's home for the holidays, but before she can truly begin her trip, she has to stop at her boss's home to get him to sign some "really important papers that can't wait until after the holiday". Being the dedicated worker she is, she reluctantly agrees. There's a few problems with this however. Erik, her boss, and Olivia have an unmistakable attraction to one another. They've kissed but very quickly and abruptly Eirk put a stop to it and has been cold to Olivia ever since. She's still carried feelings for him, but keeps her distance figuring he's not really interested. Little does Olivia know that Erik may be a little too interested. 
 Erik's family has long suffered from a curse that they can't control and turns them into what they think of as monsters on the winter solstice every year. Olivia was Erik's trigger for the curse and hence his trying to avoid her. Throw in some trickster Hounds that Erik's family has been feuding with for centuries and Olivia truly has her work cut out for her this holiday season! 
 Overall, I thought that Meljean Brook did wonderful with keeping Frozen within in the page structure of what is considered a short story. Everything was very well rounded. She gave readers enough information and background and mythology. I'm actually a little impressed. I think it shows the work of a fine author when they can make such a large story out of so little pages. 
 I also have to say that the chemistry between Olivia and Erik was hoooot! Meljean Brook has no problems writing tension and building it up throughout a story. I've read other books by Meljean Brook and she's the master of the tease! She builds things up between her heroes and heroines until you can't take it anymore and then she finally gets them together always to very hot results. Frozen is no different in that regard. 
 Where the story lost me a bit was with the back and forth between Olivia and Erik about his curse and why / why not he shouldn't be with her and their kind of unsure feelings for one another. It just went round and round too many times for my liking and really some of the answers were so apparent, mainly in regards to Erik's curse. These scenes took up a good amount of time in the story, time I feel could have been better spent exploring elsewhere. 
 I would have liked to see more of the conflict between the Hounds and Erik. In the few scenes they are in the Hounds made such great opponents I wish more of that could have been played upon. But I also understand that given the length of the story an author has to carefully pick and choose what gets included and the most important direction for Frozen was between Erik and Olivia. 
 If you're looking for something quick to read in an afternoon Frozen can definitely fit that bill. If Meljean Brook decides to write more of these short stories, I would definitely pick it up without a second thought.