Deanna Knippling

The Clockwork Alice Deanna Knippling

Tick. Tock. Time is running out for Wonderland. When Alice Liddell got married and became Alice Hargreaves, she received one last gift from the man who immortalized her in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass-a watercolor painting. To anyone else, it's just a normal painting of Oxford. But to Alice, it's a portal to another world. One that she doesn't dare go through anymore-as a wife, a mother, and a well-brought-up upper-class English lady. On the other side of the portal, another, younger Alice is being dragged into the beginning of a war. A war between the Wonderlanders that we know-and the ones on the opposite side, clockwork creations that used to maintain the clocks that drove Wonderland but have now forced their counterparts to slave from dusk until dawn. A cruel treaty constrains everyone from the humblest rabbit to the highest queen. And now the fragile peace between the Wonderlanders is coming to an end: the great clock that runs Wonderland is almost unwound, despite the best efforts of both sides...and just to make things worse, a group of traitors has been working toward the Great Unwinding, sabotaging all efforts of salvation. Only the grown-up Alice's curiosity can save them now...