title: Deadland: Untold Stories of Alice in Deadland
author:  Mainak Dhar 
description: Mainak Dhar is a cubicle dweller by day and author by night. His first `published' work was a stapled collection of Maths solutions and poems (he figured nobody would pay for his poems alone) he sold to his classmates in Grade 7, and spent the proceeds on ice cream and comics. Mainak was a bestselling author in his native India with titles published by major houses like Penguin and Random House and with one of his novels (Herogiri) being made into a major motion picture. In early 2011, he began to use Amazon to reach international readers through his ebooks and became one of the leading independent authors in the world with more than 100,000 books sold in his first year. Mainak is one of the top selling horror authors on Amazon worldwide and in March 2013, became the #1 bestselling Horror author on Amazon, momentarily unseating Stephen King. He has thirteen books to his credit including the bestselling Alice in Deadland series. Learn more about him and contact him at mainakdhar.com.
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  **THE AWAKENING OF**
  
   **ALICE**
  
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  **Violet Winspear**
  
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  "When I have finished with you, sweet icy girl," Stefan said grimly,
  
  "Damoskinos will have the anguish of knowing that you have endured the
  ultimate at my hands!"
  
  Alice Sheldon was trapped on a lonely island in the Aegean, kidnapped by a man
  intent on avenging the murder of his fiancee.
  
  Haunted by the ghost of a tragic love, he meant to make Alice his instrument
  of revenge.
  
  How could she convince him that Damoskinos didn't even know of her existence?
  
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  **CHAPTER ONE**
  
  TRAVEL was said to broaden the mind, but throughout the journey to Greece the
  mind of Alice Sheldon seemed bent on a wheel that went round and round in a
  tormenting circle, She stared beyond the window at the sky and saw imprinted
  there the pretty, frightened face of her young sister.
  
  'He'll kill me!' Alberta's seductive tone of voice had held a note of panic
  that made it shrill.