sailointhedark
Alice was never meant to choose her own life.
Promised to a duke she doesn't know, trapped in a mansion of rules and whispers, she refuses the path her parents carved for her. One moment of defiance-a slap across her cheek-pushes her down a hall she's never walked before, toward a portrait of the woman she was named after: Alice the First.
Drawn by bloodlines and madness, she enters a room untouched for decades. Dust blankets forgotten furniture, white sheets hiding secrets, until her hands uncover an enormous mirror-ancient, dark, and alive. Inside, a world waits... a world her ancestor chronicled in a diary filled with madness and wonder: the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Twins, the Cheshire Cat. All of it real.
And behind the glass, he waits. A man with golden eyes, white hair cascading to his waist, and rabbit ears that mark him as something impossible. Tall, built, and terrifyingly beautiful. He kneels before her, calling her name: Veylan, the creature of Wonderland who's been waiting centuries for her return.
In a land where love is dangerous, time bends, and loyalty is tested, Alice must decide: will she embrace the world beyond the mirror... or lose herself entirely to it?
Because once she steps through, there's no turning back.