Amia and the Ice Gems

Summary
Amia and the Ice Gems is a direct sequel to Jewel's Magic, and is the final published book in the Bella Sara series. The official summary states: "Shine Anders is overjoyed to meet lovely Amia, the daughter of the legendary horse Jewel. Together they set out on an adventure to find the precious Ice Gems. Their journey takes a dangerous turn when Shine's best friend, Gertrude, is kidnapped by treasure hunters!"

Amia
Amia is introduced to Shine by Jewel. She is guardian of the binding stone. She is very young and headstrong. For example, she races Jeremiah with Shine even though she has never had a rider before! She allows Shine to ride her on their search for Ice gems. While on their adventure, Shine swears friendship to her on the stone and they form a special bond.

Gertrude
Gertrude is shine's beloved doll friend. She visits shine for the opening of her new shop, and comes along to search for Ice Gems with her. She is captured by the treasure hunters when they attempt to save Sleetmane, and she pretends to be just a doll to save herself.

Grandmother and Mrs. Anders
Shine's grandmother and mother are mentioned briefly in the book. They tell Shine about the Ice Gems.

Jeremiah Marshall and Champion
Jeremiah is mentioned briefly. He visits Shine's shop and mocks her idea to find Ice Gems, as well as her family's jewelry. He rides a stuck up stallion named Champion. He tries to find the Ice Gems before Amia and Shine, but fails.

Jewel
Jewel is briefly mentioned at the beginning of the story when she brings Amia to meet Shine.

Marta Thomas
Marta and Shine became friends during the Festival of Lights. She comes to visit Shine's shop on opening day to buy a gift for Nike's new foal.

Mr. Smithin
Smithin is mentioned briefly when Shine sets out to look for Ice Gems. He wishes her good luck.

Shine Anders
At the start of the story, Shine is preparing her family's new shop, Treasure Trove, for its opening day. As she prepares, she and her mother and grandmother notice a storm brewing of Mount Whitemantle. They witness an Auroborus storm that produces Ice Gems. As they are watching the storm, Marta arrives, along with Gertrude. As they are talking, a few customers arrive asking if they have any Ice Gem jewelry. This prompts Shine to suggest they go looking for them themselves. Jeremiah then shows up and insults Shine, but Gertrude insults him back and he leaves ashamed. As they encourage her, Jewel arrives with Amia. Jeremiah returns with Champion and challenges Amia to a race. They race together, and they win by pure luck. Shine then asks Jewel if Amia can stay with her for a while, and Jewel agrees. Shine then announces she is going to search for the Ice Gems, and she sets out with Gertrude and Amia. They look for a back route up the mountain where other people aren't searching but run into Jeremiah again who is trying to trail them and take whatever they find. They race Jeremiah again and lose him, but a snowstorm starts and they need to turn back. But they find themselves lost and wander around the forest. Amia finds a cave and they wait out the storm where Gertrude tells the story of glowball pooches from Herd Valeryk, and how they use their lights to find Ice Gems. When they wake in the morning, they realize where they are and set out for home. However, on the way, they hear noises and find a group of glowball pooches being controlled by treasure hunters with their bull mastiff. They also find Sleetmane chained to a sled and being forced to work. Shine frees him from his bonds, but one of the dogs catches Gertrude. Shine and the horses are forced to flee and leave her, but they return and Shine goes to spy on them. Shine overhears them saying they will feed the glowball pooches to their massic dogs when they are done finding gems to avoid anyone finding out what they were doing. A dog sneaks up behind her then, but Sleetmane saves her. However, the treasure hunters notice and chase after them. Shine rides on Sleetmane and they take a secret passage with Amia through a glacier and go to Sleetmane's kingdom and visit a hot spring where they warm up. While there, Shine swears friendship to Amia on the guardian stone and the two form a special connection. Then, in the hotspring, she discovers many ice gems, but decides to do the right thing and leave them where they belong. They return with a plan to fight the treasure hunters, and Amia uses herself and her gem as bait. Then, Shine and Sleetmane rescue Gertrude and the glowball pooches. Shine and Gertrude jump overboard into the water with the pooches and swim to shore and Sleetmane pushes the treasure hunters ship out to sea with them on board, and rudderless. Gertrude then reveals that she stole the Ice Gems the treasure hunters had found, and gives them to Shine. They then return home with the gems.

Sleetmane
Sleetmane is captured by the treasure hunters and forced to work for them to protect his glowball pooch friends. He is rescued by Shine, but returns with her to help save his magical friends.

The Treasure Hunters
The treasure hunters are a group of human men who captured the glowball pooches to make them find Ice Gems from them. Gertrude states that these men are known to be brutal individuals. A few of the men are called by name, including Ivan and Valider.

Various Magical Friends
A few magical friends are mentioned in this story, including glowball pooches, snugglefriz, and shedderpups (mistakenly called shredderpups).

Locations
The locations mentioned in Amia and the Ice Gems are:
 * Bagatella Row
 * Lake Wintermere
 * Mount Whitemantle
 * Rolandsgaard Castle
 * Rolanddotter Vault
 * Shine's family shop, Treasure Trove
 * Trail's End
 * Valeryk Castle
 * Whitemantle Glacier