Stories can trap you as easily as they can save you.
For seventeen years, Alice and her mother have drifted from town to town, chased by strange misfortune and the shadow of a grandmother she’s never met. When that grandmother—the author of a cult book of dark fairy tales—dies at her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice’s mother vanishes without a trace.
Desperate to find her, Alice follows a trail that leads into the Hinterland, a realm where her family’s stories live and breathe, and where happy endings were never meant to last.
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert is a haunting modern fairy tale of secrets, fate, and the dangerous power of storytelling itself.
