Alicia

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Alicia</em> is a literary mystery about control motherhood and the hidden fractures in a marriage brought to the surface when the woman carrying their child vanishes days before giving birth.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Claire and Andrew Cooper have everything: wealth status and a pristine Manhattan apartment curated down to the scent. The only thing missing is a child. When IVF fails Claire proposes an illegal solution: hire their housekeeper Alicia as a surrogate. She is quiet young and already lives under their roof.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As the pregnancy progresses Claire tightens her grip Andrew begins to drift and Alicia seemingly compliant starts to shift in unexpected ways. Then without warning she is gone setting off a search that will expose more than one kind of loss.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With slow-burning suspense and cinematic intensity </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alicia</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a character-driven psychological drama about the choices that shape who we become with echoes of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> reimagined as a descent into a darker adult world.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The story was born from a single image: the search for a missing woman where the true purpose was the child she carried inside her rather than the woman herself. From that seed the rest grew: the struggle of losing control and learning to live without it; the reality of undocumented immigration; and the desire to reimagine Lewis Carroll's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> in a darker adult world.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I kept wondering: what if Wonderland wasn't fantasy but today's New York City? What if the story were told from the Queen of Hearts' point of view? At its heart </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alicia</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a story about borders: of the body the law and the self and what happens when those borders are crossed.</span></p>