Through With the Looking Glass: The Countinuing Adventures of Alex in Wonderland

by Michel LaCroix

Alex Sumner is back!In Through With the Looking Glass, the much-anticipated sequel to Michel LaCroix's Alex in Wonderland, New Orleans's favorite gay son returns with Cord, Jolie, Angelique, Karen, and a host of wacky new characters you won't soon forget.After dodging a marriage bullet and coming out to his parents, Alex starts over with Cord Foster, the love of his life, but in their wild wonderland nothing is ever as it seems. The pair moves into a French Quarter mansion complete with little old landladies harboring very big secrets. Their lives also tangle with Mark Logan, a preacher's son on a deadly mission, and the mysterious Bead Queen who dispenses lucky charms along with ferocious curses. You'll also meet Lance Gallipeau, an uptown aristocrat with a fondness for rough sex and antique weaponry, and transsexual chanteuse Been Her, not to mention Cord's troubled brother and a street cat named Desire. Mud is flung, arrests are made, mysteries are solved, and shattering truths revealed as Hurricane Katrina bears down on the helpless city. The story packs more twists and turns than the Mississippi River, with enough eccentrics and zanies to cast a new Tennessee Williams play. Join Alex in his craziest plunge down the rabbit hole yet in Michel LaCroix's uproarious Through With the Looking Glass.

276 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2007

About the author

Also writes historical fiction as Michael Llewellyn and historical romance as Maggie Lyons