However, while trying to sort out that trouble, Alice finds herself almost accidentally slipping through a mirror and heading back to the magical realm of Underland, that alternate-reality world of magic and mayhem that she’s visited several times before. Perhaps he feels that if he can steal away all they have, he can punish the independent woman who once jilted his affected affections. Perhaps that’s why Alice’s former fiancé, the stiff and starchy Hamish, has worked so hard to drive her widowed mother into debt while Alice was at sea this past year. She’d rather face the near-impossible-navigating treacherous reefs and out-maneuvering marauding pirates-than trying to catch a wealthy suitor’s eye.Īnd typical society frowns on that kind of contrariwise attitude. She’d far rather be captaining her father’s cargo ship than attending fancy balls. It may be a typical London day in the tip-your-hat-and-curtsy year of 1875, but Alice Kingsleigh is not your typical 19th-century young woman.
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