Frozen Fire is a philosophical thriller about the nature of reality by Tim Bowler.

It introduces a mysterious boy who wants to escape his unhappy life through suicide, and a fifteen-year-old girl who only wants her brother back from wherever he has disappeared to.

The back of the book reads: When Dusty gets the phone call from a mysterious boy she knows she can not ignore it.

He can see people's thoughts, and feels everything – from chilling ice to white-hot pain... and he seems to have a hold over everyone he meets.

The story begins with Dusty, the main character, receiving a mysterious phone call from an anonymous boy who claims to be dying.

When the locals start to suspect that Dusty is harbouring the boy, angry mobs go to her house and vandalise her room.

When a mob traps the boy and confronts him he takes off his clothes and reveals that he has no genitals, proving that he could not have possibly raped anyone.

Dusty is thrown into turmoil but an observation from Silas, an old miser, reveals that the boy is not, in fact, dead.

He wears a duffel coat unbuttoned and with the hood up, a pale shirt and trousers, and some old scruffy boots.

Dusty decides it is the strangely feminine quality of his cheekbones and eyes, and his delicate long-fingered hands.

Even though Dusty has an over-idealized fantasy version of him, in truth it is quite possible that it was he who committed the rapes, although this is not directly stated.

It is implied that he committed suicide by weighing himself down and jumping of a cliff into a lake because he could not handle the guilt.

Mum: Mother of Dusty who ran away after having a breakdown six months after Josh disappeared, though she returns home toward the end of the book.

Beam: Another of Dusty's friends who, like Kamalika, loses trust in her when rumours begin to be spread about the boy.