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同一個時間，還有另一個世界存在 。打破雕像的同時，我也打破了魔咒 …17歲的Clara，因媽媽意外的死去，開始動手查真相。爸爸是貪腐的紐約市長，惡名遠播，想必也幫不上什麼忙。真實世界已經夠黑了，但這世上 ，如同教父說的，還更黑暗的。某日教父不小心打破店裡的一尊雕像，意外破解封咒，將寒冰王國Cane的王子Nicolas從雕像中解放出來，而此同時也引來另一組人馬，他們意圖將Nicolas帶走未果，脅持了爸爸和妹妹，到了另一個魔法世界…
Clara和Nicolas一起到Cane解救爸爸，卻遇到邪惡的Anise 皇后…解救爸爸和妹妹的時間愈來愈少，而魔法即將消失…
Darkly romantic and entirely enchanting, this reimagining of The Nutcracker from Claire Legrand brims with magic, love, and intrigue—and “includes a Victorian mob princess/warrior heroine, an alternate New York City, steampunk faeries and an epic multigenerational battle” (Kirkus Reviews).
After her mother is brutally murdered, seventeen-year-old Clara Stole is determined to find out what happened to her. Her father, a powerful man with little integrity, is a notorious New York City gang lord in the syndicate-turned-empire called Concordia. And he isn’t much help.
But there is something even darker than Concordia’s corruption brewing under the surface of the city, something full of vengeance and magic, like the stories Clara’s godfather used to tell her when she was a little girl. Then her father is abducted and her little sister’s life is threatened, and Clara accidentally frees Nicholas from a statue that has been his prison for years. Nicholas is the rightful prince of Cane, a wintry kingdom that exists beyond the city Clara has known her whole life.
When Nicholas and Clara journey together to Cane to retrieve her father, Clara encounters Anise, the queen of the faeries, who has ousted the royal family in favor of her own totalitarian, anti-human regime. Clara finds that this new world is not as foreign as she feared, but time is running out for her family, and there is only so much magic can do...
New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer (Cinder) says “this is not your grandmother’s Nutcracker tale.”