THE HAZEL WOOD

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.Her mother is stolen, by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world from her grandmother's stories. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOOD. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began .

Alice in varsta de saptesprezece ani si mama ei au petrecut cea mai mare parte a vietii lui Alice pe drum, intotdeauna cu un pas inaintea ciudatului ghinion muscandu-i la calcai. Dar cand bunica lui Alice, autorul exclusiv al unei carti de basme intunecate, moare singura pe mosia ei - Hazel Wood - Alice afla cat de rau poate avea norocul ei. Mama ei este furata de o figura care sustine ca vine. din lumea supranaturala cruda din povestile bunicii ei.