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. .. .
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 .
Her mother is stolen away - by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother\'s stories are set.
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.
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
