Chapter One : An Ice Princess (Part One)
Under a coat of black paint was the world's largest diamond with a formula of making more just like it in it's base. Everyone wanted it. Some would pay ANY price to have it. Others would even kill for it. Whomever possessed it, also possessed untold wealth and power.
Alexandria Quartermaine once had the diamond upon it's base in the palm of her hand. It was she who had painted it black, thinking herself clever for turning it into a nondescript statue of seemingly little value. Now it looked just like any piece of junk, but unfortunately, common dockside thieves did not know junk from priceless art. The diamond was taken when the thieves hijacked Alex's shipment of artsy exotica from the Port Charles wharf.
Alex had sunk the entire Quartermaine fortune into the red in order to obtain the Ice Princess. Now she was driven to find it again. Alex was not the only one who wanted the diamond. Suddenly Port Charles was crawling with sneaky characters speaking in suspicious foreign tongues.
At this point in time, Luke Spencer was still fresh from his campaign to stop organized crime in Port Charles. Alexandria and her Uncle Edward decided that Luke was just the right person to help retrieve the stolen treasure. Alex said to her uncle, "He always lands on his feet" and Edward agreed.
They sought Luke's help, but ended up getting Laura Baldwin's help, too, by default. Even so, they did not want to tell all the details of the case. Luke discovered that the hard way when he was clunked on the head by the mysterious Robert Scorpio.
Scorpio tried to get Luke on his side by telling Luke all about Alexandria's notorious reputation. "She's a dangerous woman," Robert warned. "And a thief, too."
The Ice Princess, Luke learned, was the stolen property of an even more ominous person by the name of Anthony Cassadine. Tony was one of the wealthiest men in the world. "He has a little list he carries in his coat pocket," Scorpio told Luke. "And it appears that if your name is on that list, you are due to an unfortunate end."
That list already had two scratch marks on it - two of James Duvall's assistants had been brutally murdered. James Duvall, the inventor of the diamond formula was in fact the next one on the list. He was in Port Charles, cuddling up to Alexandria at the Quartermaine mansion. Danger was soon closing in.
Now Luke and Robert seemed to know who their rivals were, but even so, they were keeping a very close watch on each other. The biggest problem in their precarious situation was that no one knew who had the Ice Princess, but they had a good idea that it was in the clutches of someone who did not know of it's true value. They were right! Emma Lutz, the wife of a cabby who moonlighted as a heist man on the docks was in possession of the Princess.
Luke, with Cassadine and Scorpio hot on his trail, charmed Emma by promising to introduce her to the right people. She decided to donate the Ice Princess to Lila Quartermaine's charity auction. When a picture of the statue appeared in the paper the next day, it was as though the Keystone Cops had been let loose. Even though everyone could see it, no one could touch it, because it was under lock and key at the Port Charles Police Department.
Everyday Luke believed he was getting closer to his dreams. He would get rich quickly and make Laura Baldwin his wife. But unfortunately, because of their involvement with the Ice Princess, Luke and Laura would find themselves chasing their dreams for months and months to come...
Author's Note- Please stay tuned for Part Two of An Ice Princess in the next chapter.