In four new novellas, Christina Henry returns to the world of Alice
and Red Queen, where magic runs as freely as secrets and blood.
Lovely Creature
In the New City lives a girl with a secret: Elizabeth can do magic. But
someone knows her secret--someone who has a secret of his own. That
secret is a butterfly that lives in a jar, a butterfly that was supposed
to be gone forever, a butterfly that used to be called the
Jabberwock...
Girl in Amber
Alice and Hatcher are just looking for a place to rest. Alice has been
dreaming of a cottage by a lake and a field of wildflowers, but while
walking blind in a snowstorm she stumbles into a house that only seems
empty and abandoned...
When I First Came to Town
Hatcher wasn't always Hatcher. Once, he was a boy called Nicholas, and
Nicholas fancied himself the best fighter in the Old City. No matter who
fought him he always won. Then his boss tells him he's going to battle
the fearsome Grinder, a man who never leaves his opponents alive...
The Mercy Seat
There is a place hidden in the mountains, where all the people hate and
fear magic and Magicians. It is the Village of the Pure, and though
Alice and Hatcher would do anything to avoid it, it lies directly in
their path...