The Forbidden Library
When Alice is sent to live with her “Uncle” Geryon following her father's death, Alice discovers a magical talent that allows her to enter other worlds by reading – and she discovers the dangers associated with it. First, her father comes home one night from work, and Alice (quite accidentally) hears him overtalking to a fairy – a rather threatening fairy. The next day, he announces he is leaving on a business trip by boat (by boat? Hmmm, unusual, for Al...
