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She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.

Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would changed course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took.... read more

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  • Alice Bell: "Ali" - "Alice Rose Bell" - A sixteen-year-old orphan who sees monsters; Has wavy white-blonde hair, big blue eyes and legs that stretch for miles; Is five-ten
  • Emmaline Lily Bell: "Em" - "Emmaline Lily Bell" - Alice's little sister; 8 years old; Has a slick fall of dark hair and beautifully uptilted golden eyes
  • Miranda Bell: "Miranda Bradley" - Alice & Emma's mother; Has a slick fall of dark hair and beautifully uptilted golden eyes; Is barely over five-three; A medical transcriptionist
  • Phillip Bell: Alice & Emma's father; Has blond hair and electric blue eyes; Is six-four; He saw monsters no one else could see; A builder
  • Grandmother Alice: "Alice Bell" - Alice & Emma's paternal grandmother; Phillip's mother
  • Grandmother Emmaline: "Nana" - "Emmaline Bradley" - Alice & Emma's maternal grandmother; Carl's wife; Miranda's mother; Has shoulder-length brown hair and golden eyes
  • Carl Bradley: "Pops" - Alice & Emma's maternal grandfather; Emmaline's husband; Miranda's father; His thinning, graying hair has receded so much at the sides that he has a major widow's peak and he sports a cringe-worthy comb-over; Was a boxer in his youth
  • Cole Holland: A guy at Alice's new school; 17 years old; Leader of a "gang"; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Is gorgeous with hair so black it's almost blue and violet eyes; Is six-three; Has a myriad of scars and beautiful tattoos on his chest and arms
  • Kathryn Parker: "Kat" - "Mad Dog" - "Meow" - Alice's new best friend; Frosty's on-again, off-again girlfriend; 16 years old; Has straight dark hair, large hazel eyes framed by spiky black lashes, and skin the perfect shade of sun-kissed
  • Frosty: Kat's on-again, off-again boyfriend; Cole's best friend; 17 years old; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Has dark blond hair and dark blue eyes with brown flecks; Has black bands tattooed around his wrists and brass knuckles tattooed over his knuckles
  • Trina Brighton: "Rina" - Part of Cole's group; 18 years old; Has muscular arms and tats; Her hair is chopped to just below her ears, and there are scars stretching across the back of her neck (like teeth marks)
  • Reeve Ankh: Alice & Kat's friend; 16 years old; Has dark hair, striking, bold features, and her skin is the most beautiful sun-dusted color of bronze
  • Poppy Verdeck: Kat's friend; 16 years old; A beautiful freckled redhead
  • Wren Kyler: Kat's friend; 16 years old; A gorgeous black girl with amazing caramel eyes
  • Mackenzie Love: "Kenz" - Cole's ex-girlfriend; 17 years old; Part of Cole's group; Has silky dark hair curling to the middle of her back and jade-green eyes
  • Bronx: Part of Cole's group; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Has barbells in both of his eyebrows and electric blue hair
  • Haun: "Spike" - Part of Cole's group; An Asian boy with dark brown hair sticking up all over his head and dark eyes
  • Cruz: "Turd" - Part of Cole's group; A hispanic boy with brown hair and a scar running down the side of his cheek
  • Lucas Anderson: Part of Cole's group; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Is gorgeous and black; Wears a house arrest anklet
  • Derek: Part of Cole's group; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Is black
  • Brent: Part of Cole's group; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Has blond hair
  • Collins: Part of Cole's group; Is tall and stacked with muscle; Has a shaved head; Wears a house arrest anklet
  • Boots: Ducky's best friend; Was part of Cole's group; Died last year from a disease called Antiputrefactive Syndrome
  • Ducky: Boots' best friend; Was part of Cole's group; Died last year from a disease called Antiputrefactive Syndrome
  • Justin Silverstone: Cole's nemesis; Jaclyn's twin; 16 years old; Is very cute with auburn hair and puppy dog brown eyes
  • Jaclyn Silverstone: Justin's twin; 16 years old; Has dark hair
  • John Clary: A boy Reeve has a date with
  • Marcus: A boy at Asher High School
  • Tiffany Chang: A girl at Asher High School; Is heavyset with dark hair
  • Mr. Flanagan: Alice's former neighbor; Cary's father
  • Mrs. Flanagan: Alice's former neighbor; Cary's mother
  • Cary Flanagan: Alice's former neighbor; Mr. & Mrs. Flanagan's son; A cute boy, a little older than Alice
  • Dr. Wright: Principal at Asher High School; Has dark brown hair framing a pretty face, brown eyes and olive-toned skin
  • Mr. Buttle: "Mr. Butthole" - Teacher at Asher High School
  • Ms. Meyers: Creative Writing teacher at Asher High School; Is short and rotund; Wears her salt-and-pepper hair in a bun and her glasses are too big for her face
  • Mrs. Heldermon: Teacher at Asher High School
  • Mrs. Parker: Kat's mother; A doctor
  • Tyler Holland: Cole's father; A tall man with dark hair, electric blue eyes and a shadow of a beard on his jaw
  • Mr. Ankh: Reeve's father; A genius plastic surgeon with the hands of an angel; Dates someone new every week; Is five-eleven with salt-and-pepper hair and deeply bronzed skin
  • Alice: blond;pale;huge blue eye's;
  • Mr. Holland: Cole's dad
  • Dad: Ali's dad
  • Jennifer Showalter: Add a description of this character.
  • Nana
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  • “We are spirit beings, those spirits our source of power, and we have a soul…our logic and emotions, and we live in a body.”

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First Sentence edit see section history

Had anyone told me that my entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, I would have laughed.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue - A Note from Alice
Chapter 1 - Down the Zombie Hole
Chapter 2 - The Pool of Blood and Tears
Chapter 3 - Eerily Curiouser and Eerily Curiouser…
Chapter 4 - What Bloody Bloody Nonsense!
Chapter 5 - The Deadly Rabbit Returns
Chapter 6 - Advice from a Dying Caterpillar
Chapter 7 - Out of the Chrysalis and Into the Abyss
Chapter 8 - The Beginning of the Dead End
Chapter 9 - A Fiendishly Mad Tea Party
Chapter 10 - Hungry…Need Brains…Will Have Yours
Chapter 11 - Red Roses, White Roses…Black Roses
Chapter 12 - Off with Her Head!
Chapter 13 - Knock, Knock, Says the Evil
Chapter 14 - Let’s Hear the Chorus of Pain
Chapter 15 - The King and Queen of Shredded Hearts
Chapter 16 - The Good, the Bad and the Really Ugly
Chapter 17 - A Nightmare of Zombie Proportions
Chapter 18 - Alice’s Happy Beginning
What's on Alice's iPod?
Special Q & A with Gena Showalter

Glossary edit see section history

  • Antiputrefactive Syndrome: A disease that turns your blood into a toxic sludge, basically causing you to rot from the inside out. It's not contagious or anything like that, or so the proverbial ‘they’ say.
  • Witness: Someone who has died, who lives in heaven and watches over the lives of those they loved.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 2 in The White Rabbit Chronicles. (standard series)

Followed by Through The Zombie Glass.

This book is in Harlequin Teen. (publisher series)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Gena Showalter (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 25, 2012
ISBN: 978-0373210589
Page Count: 304

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