A Hot title at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair Movie rights to Columbia Pictures

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alicea ™s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alicea ™s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away a - by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmothera ™s stories are set.