Belle is a lot of things: smart, resourceful, restless. She longs to escape her poor provincial town for good. She wants to explore the world, despite her father's reluctance to leave their little cottage in case Belle's mother returns -- a mother she barely remembers. Belle also happens to be the captive of a terrifying, angry beast. And that is her primary concern. But when Belle touches the Beast's enchanted rose, intriguing images flood her mind...

Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice, now eighteen, tries to stop the Queen of Hearts' tyrannical rule before the End of Time, and save her own world as well as Wonderland.