Book 2 of the epic series of novels The Lodging for the Rose Fiction and reality often merge. As the boundaries blur, we may find sexual and social boundaries blurred as well. The love stories that unfold in this setting are painted with the Principle of Universal Love and the colors of romance, passion, politics, conspiracies, love, religion, sex, wide horizons, and even a faint dawning of a universal sense of marriage by virtue of us all being human beings with a single, common humanity that we all share. The novel explores scientific moral freedoms on a platform where the seemingly impossible becomes achievable at times, but seldom without trials along the way. The novel brings the past and the future together, intertwined with the kaleidoscope of the present. And among all that a new, lighter, and liberating sense of sex comes to the foreground through the stories of several intertwined love relationships. Is sex sin, or do its intimacies unfold in individual sacrament with our universal humanity? Is sex dirty and cheap, and enslaving; or is it generous and profound, as love is generous and profound, because love cannot be anything less and still be love? Can love exist on its own, small and privatized, without its 'divine' principle of sharing and giving? Can love be found apart from its shine, without the colors of its spectrum in enriching one another? The stories in the novel are also intertwined with a profusion of political axioms that are often scenes without love, stories of impotence rather than power, and of self-imposed slavery rather than freedom, but also of heroic efforts being made to heal in the world, what needs to be healed. The Ice Age Challenge is Book 2 (Episode 2a) of the series The Lodging for the Rose. A note can be found in the appendix on what the series of novels is about, and also what the preceding book (Book 1 - Discovering Love) is about. The novels are published by Cygni Communications Ltd, BC, Canada (www.ice-age-ahead-iaa.ca)