In the Winter of 1152 the Mouse Guard face a food and supply shortage threatening the lives of many mouse through a cold and icy season. Some of the Guards finest Saxon Kenzie Lieam and Sadie led by Celanawe the legendary Black Axe traverse the snowblanketed territories acting as diplomats to improve relations between the mouse cities and the Guard and find themselves on a race against time to deliver crucial medicines. This is a winter not every Guard may survive... Collects the second Mou