Lady Ascot suddenly loomed in front of Alice. Her sharp face leaned down, her features pinched."Alice dear," she said smoothly, "shall ...
Ten years laterA horse-drawn carriage careened down the road at a full gallop. Outside the carriage windows, the outskirts of London flashed by. Insid...
London, 1855 Alice Kingsleigh started awake.Her heart was pounding. The room around her was dark. The only glimmers of light slipped under the door fr...
The library in the Ascot mansion was usually quite cozy, but Helen Kingsleigh shivered in her seat at the wide oak table. Her eyes were fixed on the t...
An eerie stillness hung in the Chamber of the Grand Clock. Then ...ticktockTickTockTicktock.TICKTOCK.Glowing under a layer of rust, like a clothcovere...
Hatter leaned forward like the prow of a ship as they cut their way deeper into the past. His eagle eyes spotted a flicker of movement ahead."The...
The Red Queen's castle was eerily silent as Alice and Hatter crept down the stairs and into the main hall. Not even the leaves on the walls rustle...
His brow furrowed in concern, Zanik peered up at his son. This was by far the scariest thing he had ever done. Stalling, he ran his hands along the bl...
The Outlands themselves stretched for hundreds of miles. Jagged mountains pierced the skyline here and there, but nothing moved against the fields of ...
Iracebeth paced along the balcony of her castle deep in the Outlands. It was nowhere near as comfortable as her previous palace, and the walls smelled...