(This is a teaser novella, a short work of fiction, the beginning of an epic adventure series. If you would like to see more of this particular story, please consider voting with your comments or your review. I thank you for reading! ~KDK)
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It's Alice with a bite, a forbidden second slice...
Of course you're mad, my love.
Or else you wouldn't have come here.
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Really, when you think about it, it all started when Auntie Lorina died. That's when the family started fighting, when the breakup with Jeremy began, when the secrets started to unfold themselves on black beast- and angel-wings, when everything got torn apart and utterly insane.
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Since then, nineteen-year-old Rowan Pleasance Hargreaves has inherited a mansion, a house with a forbidden passion's curse; she's found a soul-twisted reflection in the mirror who wants to swallow her; and worst of all, a one-way trip down the rabbit hole into another world of desire and nightmare, a dark and Eden-lost paradise called the Wonderwild. And, oh yes, there in the forest prowls a young fallen (and not to be fallen for) nobleman, who just might be a werewolf.
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In a land of others' desires and pleasure slaves in chains of gold, no one can save Rowan from a life of bondage and servitude but herself.
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There's no easy answer to just what mystery you'll unearth when you dare to dream of your most sinister desire, so far away from home, deep down in the sensual chaos of the Wonderwild...
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So pick a card, any card. What do you dream you'll find?
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You might draw a Tarot hand of madness, of lust, or treachery, of carnal allure and bloodshed, a tease of wulfen beauty, love to be lost, or love regained. And yes, a bit of mad and nervous laughter will be had, that's the only certain thing.
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Perhaps you'll even try to escape and earn yourself a bloody execution, off with your pretty head. You never know, but it always seems to get deadly before it leads to fantasy, or destiny.
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No one ever said that a secret life of desire in the underworld would be easy...
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WONDERGLASS - Episode One: Mirror, Mirror is a fast-paced, fun, brooding and decidedly more risqué twist on the classic dream world of (not your mother's) Wonderland. From Wonderland Imprints, Only the Finest Works of Fantasy.
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(This new adult dark fantasy, the fast-paced introduction to an epic saga of paranormal romance, is for ages eighteen and up, due to mild profanity, imagery and suggestive subject matter.)