Alice and the Golden Egg

Book excerpt: A high-frying adventure into a weird and wonderful ramshackle civilization. A grumbly teen who'd be digging it... if her dad weren't dying. Fiskelycka, the Swedish coast. Alice Andersson keeps her feelings buried. Having never quite gotten over her mother leaving, the cynical fourteen-year-old masks her boiling anger and heartbreak with a thick veneer of sarcasm. But her protective façade cracks when a fairy dissolves into fireflies in her garden, depositing a shining egg that attracts a shadowy evil's vicious attack... With the assault putting her father into a coma, Alice desperately searches for a cure deep within a world of myth. Her only hope of avoiding orphanhood is a shrunken giant with questionable ethics and a cat named Lucifer to guide her through the land of troll bureaucracy and winged nightmares to find Yggdrasil - the tree of life - before the egg hatches. Can Alice unscramble a fix and save her dad from doom?' Alice and the Golden Egg is the rollicking first book in the Alice Andersson YA urban fantasy series. If you like quirky characters, zingy dialogue, and shocking twists, then you'll love C.J. Persson's yoke of two realms. Buy Alice and the Golden Egg for a sizzling serving of mythology today! This book was previously published as Alice's Anger.