The guardians jack frost : the end becomes the beginning / William Joyce.

Chapter One. A nose is nearly nipped.--Chapter Two. Less than early frost.--Chapter Three. Pitch is no longer at bat... for now.--Chapter Four. An unusual pair of tails.--Chapter Five. The guardians begin to guard.--Chapter Six. Misgivings on giving gifts.--Chapter Seven. A yuletide most untidy.--Chapter Eight. The everlasting lip touch.--Chapter Nine. Where there's a will, there's a whisper.--Chapter Ten. What's good for the goose is grand for the ganderly.--Chapter Eleven. How to get the goose.--Chapter Twelve. The greatest library the world has never known.--Chapter Thirteen. In which we get to the root of the matter.--Chapter Fourteen. Anger management.--Chapter Fifteen. The pause thickens (the plot, that is).--Chapter Sixteen. The worm turns inside out.--Chapter Seventeen. Jack is nimble; pitch now trembles.--Chapter Eighteen. One for all and all against one.--Chapter Nineteen. The moon is full.--Chapter Twenty. Between the tick and the tock.--Chapter Twenty-One. Like an elephant stamps a flea.--Chapter Twenty-Two. The greatest strength.--Chapter Twenty-Three. Once upon a time...--Chapter Twenty-Four. Mind over what matters.--Chapter Twenty-Five. No mercy.--Chapter Twenty-Six. Sadness into snow.--Chapter Twenty-Seven. Snag, smush, and whittle.--Chapter Twenty-Eight. Time and tide.

After Nightlight, a Guardian, transforms into Jack Overland Frost, he is entrusted by Father Time with a great secret, but he must revisit his past if he is to understand the secret and defeat an old enemy who threatens the world with destruction.