Then Alice and Hatcher end up in a town that they can't seem to escape - a town run by a woman who loves children. Pretty soon her secret's going to show, but she wants their baby all to herself for a little while longer. But there's a pretty blue-eyed girl named Hattie, and Hatcher can't get those blue eyes out of his mind.THE MERCY SEATAlice has a secret - a secret that not even Hatcher knows yet. Nicholas knows he has to stay focused on his upcoming match, because the Grinder is going to try to kill him. Then his boss tells him he's going to battle the fearsome Grinder, a man who never leaves his opponents alive. Once he was a boy called Nicholas, and Nicholas fancied himself the best fighter in the Old City. Walking blind, they stumble onto a castle that seems empty and abandoned - at least until nightfall, when the sleeping things awake.WHEN I FIRST CAME TO TOWNHatcher wasn't always Hatcher. But they are nowhere near that field or lake yet - they're caught in a snowstorm the likes of which neither of them has ever seen. Alice has been dreaming of a cottage by a lake and a field of wildflowers for longer than she can remember. But someone knows Elizabeth is a Magician, and that someone knows something else too - that Elizabeth once had a sister named Alice.GIRL IN AMBERAlice & Hatcher are just looking for a place to rest their heads. Elizabeth knows magic: how to change flowers into jewels and back again, tricks she does to amuse herself. Elizabeth also has a secret - a secret not even Mama and Papa know. It is the Village of the Pure, and though Alice and Hatcher would do anything to avoid it, it lies directly in their path.LOVELY CREATUREIt's Giving Day in the New City, and Elizabeth Hargreaves is thrilled to wear her pretty blue dress and receive her commemorative coin in the square just like all the other children. There is a place hidden in the mountains, where all the people hate and fear magic and Magicians. Once, he was a boy called Nicholas, and Nicholas fancied himself the best fighter in the Old City. 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. 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.Īlice and Hatcher are just looking for a place to rest. Praise for Looking Glass MesmerizingThese somber, occasionally disturbing novellas offer a mature take on the children’s story but balance the horrors of the City with hope. But someone knows her secret-someone who has a secret of his own.

In the New City lives a girl with a secret: Elizabeth can do magic. In four new novellas, Christina Henry returns to the world of Alice and Red Queen, where magic runs as freely as secrets and blood.

Looking glass by christina henry