Through the Shattered Glass

Forget the rabbit hole. For Alice, the madness is in the mirror. Twenty-two-year-old Alice Liddell is home, but she isn't whole. After a six-year stay in the gothic Thornhill Psychiatric Hospital, she returns to the decaying Victorian manor where her life fell apart. The house is a mausoleum, haunted by fragmented memories of a childhood tragedy she's desperate to forget. But the past isn't just haunting her-it's waiting for her.
When she looks into the ornate mirror in her childhood bedroom, she doesn't see a reflection. She sees a place she knows: Wonderland. But this is not the whimsical fairy tale. It is a nightmarish landscape of blood-red roses and weeping woods, a psychological prison built from her own trauma, grief, and guilt. She falls through the shattered glass. Here, every character is a demon from her past. The frantic White Rabbit is her failed psychiatrist, the grotesque Caterpillar offers an escape in pills, and the tyrannical Red Queen-a towering figure with a voice like grinding glass-is the embodiment of Alice's own self-hatred, hungry for a trial.
At a clockwork tea party, frozen at the exact moment of the tragedy, she meets the most heartbreaking monster of all: the Mad Hatter, a broken, mechanical version of Matthias, the childhood friend whose death she can't remember. To escape this dark fantasy of her own making, Alice must navigate the labyrinth of her fractured psyche, unlock her repressed memories, and finally confront the devastating truth of what happened in the library seven years ago.
She is on trial for the crime of forgetting. the crime of surviving. Perfect for fans of Christina Henry's dark retellings, the psychological depth of The Haunting of Hill House, and the gothic atmosphere of Mexican Gothic, Through the Shattered Glass is a visceral and heart-wrenching journey into the darkness of the human mind. It is a story about survivor's guilt, the prison of self-punishment, and the terrifying, beautiful power of self-forgiveness.
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