The Hazel Wood

After Alice’s grandmother, the secluded writer of dark fairy tales, dies at the Hazel Wood estate, Alice’s mother is taken away by someone from the supernatural Hinterland. The frightening magical realm from her grandmother’s stories has become real. Joined by Ellery, an avid admirer of those tales, seventeen-year-old Alice enters that world in an attempt to rescue her mother. The novel combines family loss with a dangerous fairy-tale realm.