InCryptid - La série

From a Western circus where monsters and heroes collide to a Civil War robot that clanks into battle to a mining family that encounters parallel universes, "Westward Weird" features 13 original stories that open the Old West to new frontiers of science fiction and fantasy. Original.

After a rather...eventful...visit to Tempe, Arizona, Jonathan Healy wants nothing more than to return to his home in Buckley Township, Michigan, where at least the threats are generally familiar ones. With the last of the blood mopped up and the locals none the wiser, it seems he's just a train ride away from getting his wish. Of course, there are a few small complications. Like the lovely and occasionally violent Miss Frances Brown, former star of the Campbell Family Circus, who seems to have become his new traveling companion. And then there's the matter of the train having driven through a dimensional gateway into Hell... Maybe Jonathan shouldn't be quite so worried about getting back to Michigan. Maybe his time would be better spent in worrying about how to get off the train while he, and Fran, are still among the living.

Road trips are wonderful things, filled with adventure, excitement, and questionable lodgings, but there comes a time in every man's life where all he wants is the chance to sleep in his own bed, eat at his own table, and reunite his colony of talking pantheistic mice with their fellows, thus making sleep a little bit more likely. With Buckley Township in his sights, Jonathan Healy is finally going home. The trouble is, home for him isn't home for Fran, who grew up in the desert, never lived under a fixed roof for more than a week at a time, and has no idea what to expect. To make matters worse, Jonathan's parents—Enid and Alexander Healy, late of the Covenant of St. George—are right on hand to make things more awkward for everyone. With her future on the line, it's time for Frances Brown to make one of the biggest decisions of her life. Does she stay in Buckley Township and try to make a life with the Healys? Or does she saddle up her horse and ride back into the sunset?

Johnny and Fran are on assignment again, this time heading for Colorado to investigate reports of an unusually large Apraxis hive. Apraxis wasps are large, deadly, and worst of all, capable of consuming the memories of the people they kill, which makes them the sort of thing that no one really wants living nearby. Upon arriving in Colorado, our intrepid pair naturally discover that things aren't as simple as they appear—and they didn't appear to be that simple to begin with. Johnny and Fran will have to contend with dragon princesses, suspicious locals, and threats that neither of them have ever dreamed could exist if they want to make it out of this one alive. Survival has never been so difficult, or so important, because if they don't make it home, how can they warn the others? "Stingers and Strangers" was originally published in the Titan Books anthology Dead Man's Hand, released in May of 2014. Copies are available from a bookstore near you.

After a rocky start and a lot of dangerous adventures, the day everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived: Jonathan Healy and Frances Brown are going to be married, and none too soon, since their first child is set to arrive at any moment. Alexander and Enid couldn't be happier about their son gaining a wife and a child, while giving them a daughter-in-law. The mice have been celebrating for weeks. If only Jonathan and Fran were so sure... Marriage is a big step, and Fran is terrified of what her future will bring. Is this her happily ever after, or just one more short-term home in a long string of the same? Help comes in the form of her old circus friends...but that just raises more questions. Will she ever be happy holding still? And what does it mean to be married in green? You are cordially invited to join the Healys and the members of the Campbell Family Carnival on the joyous event of the marriage of Jonathan Healy and Frances Brown. Assuming they go through with it. Everything changes today.

Jonathan and Frances Healy are beginning their new lives together with that most traditional of celebrations: the honeymoon. Leaving their infant son with Jonathan's parents, the Healys are leaving Buckley Township, Michigan for the cosmopolitan wonders of the city of Chicago, where they can properly celebrate the fact that they managed to have a wedding without anybody winding up dead. Of course, these are the Healys we're talking about, and nothing in Chicago is exactly fitting the description provided by the Bureau of Tourism. From the gorgon-run hotel where they'll be staying to the swamp hags in the Chicago River, things are definitely business as usual, at least by the family definition of "usual." Bootlegger Arturo Gucciard has only just been introduced to the Healy definition of "usual," but he's going to need to get awfully familiar with it if he wants to live long enough to have a honeymoon of his own. And Jonathan, well. Jonathan just wants to have a normal honeymoon. Good luck with that.

It has been three years since the marriage of Jonathan and Frances Healy; three years since the birth of their son, Daniel, who has been the light of their lives for that entire time. And now, due to circumstances beyond their control, the family has come together to do the one thing that none of them has ever wanted to do. They have come together to bury Daniel. Shattered by the death of their little boy, Jonathan and Frances set out to find the Campbell Family Carnival, where Fran's old friend Juniper's talent for talking to ghosts may allow her to believe that her child is truly at rest. Jonathan has no such hopes; he just wants to there's a chance his wife will survive the labyrinth of her grief. This is not a happy story, and it does not chronicle a happy time in the annals of the Price family. But this is what happened, and when it happened, and it shaped so very much of what came after. Rest well, Daniel Healy. You never had a chance.

Daniel Healy has been dead for two years, and his parents are still in the process of healing both themselves and their relationship. When Alexander Healy suggests that it's finally time for his daughter-in-law to accompany them on their periodic fishing trip to White Otter Lake, it seems like the perfect opportunity for the four surviving members of the family to become reacquainted with one another. Fran is dubious at first, not really understanding what a fishing trip could do for them as a family. That was before she knew about the monsters in White Otter Lake, of course. The monsters change everything. Before long, the entire Healy clan is embroiled in a fight for the lives of the creatures that live in White Otter Lake, which may be the last of their kind in the world. If they want to save these majestic plesiosaurs, the family will need to find a way to come together in order to solve the mystery of what the guardian of White Otter Lake has disappeared to. It's bullets versus brains as the Healys finally step up to do their jobs, and preserve the crytozoological world. No matter what it takes.

With their second child due to arrive any day, it would be reasonable for Jonathan and Frances Healy to stay safe at home. Unfortunately, the world has other ideas. A postcard from the mysterious coastal town of Gentling, Maine has Jonathan packing his bags and preparing for an adventure—and when did Fran ever pass up an adventure? But the people of Gentling aren't just ordinary fishermen and sailors: they're the descendants of finfolk who fell in love with the humans who pulled them from the sea, and they have long since settled into a gentle rhythm of a life lived between the wet and the dry. Only now, someone or something is stealing their babies from the shore, endangering the next generation. Old obligations and new obligations will collide, and the newest member of the Healy family will join the fight...or will she? Because it's not just the babies of the finfolk who are in danger, and unless they're careful, Johnny and Fran might find themselves losing another child...

It's been years since the death of their first child, Daniel, but Jonathan and Frances Healy have never been able to catch the person responsible...until now. When word comes that the Apraxis hives are moving strangely, and that a familiar woman with black hair and no history has appeared, it seems like things may finally come to fruition. And it's not like they won't have backup: Enid and Alexander Healy have not forgiven the woman who cost them their first grandchild, and they're not about to let Johnny and Fran ride out alone. They don't know much about the situation that they're walking into. They know enough to be afraid, to be on their guards, and to stay together at all times. Can they avenge their own without paying more than they can afford? Old questions are finally answered, and old debts are paid as the Healys walk into the most dangerous situation they have faced thus far. It's for Daniel. There's no question of whether they'll go. There's only a question of whether they'll come back.

Things are starting to hit an easy sort of groove at the Healy house. Alice is growing up, a little spitfire of a girl who adores her father and idolizes her mother. Johnny and Fran have mostly put their ghosts behind them, and are focusing on the future, which has never seemed brighter, or more guaranteed. Sadly, for some people, the future has already ended. Mary Dunlavy has been Alice's babysitter almost since the girl was born. When her father stops showing up for work, it falls to Fran to go and see what's going on. What she finds changes everything. There is no right and there is no wrong in some situations: there's only the way things should have been, and the way things are. Not everyone gets out alive.

There's nothing that little girls love more on Halloween than going trick or treating with their mother, a sackful of talking pantheistic mice, and their dead babysitter. All right, maybe there are a lot of things that little girls love more, but for Alice Healy, a nice out with her beloved mama and her favorite ghost is just about perfect. Right up until someone snatches her off of a porch, that is. For Alice, this is the most terrifying thing that has ever happened. For Fran, this is the end of the world, and something she may not survive; if she doesn't get her little girl back, she may be joining Mary in the grave. And for the snake cult that grabbed Alice, this may be the chance that they've been waiting for... It's tricks and treats on a Buckley Halloween, and this time, there are more than just the usual masked monsters roaming the streets.

Valentine's Day has come to Buckley Township. For Alice, that means cupcakes and paper hearts. For Jonathan, it means sleepless nights and fear, because Fran hasn't come home. Everything ends eventually. No matter how much you hope that it won't. Everything ends.

Almost twenty years ago, Jonathan Healy rode a train across the country to investigate reports that something was killing people in the wake of a small family circus. Almost twenty years ago, he brought home the woman who would be his wife, the mother of his children, and his partner in the endless quest to protect the cryptids of the world. The time has come for Fabulous Fran, the Flower of Arizona, the Star of New Mexico, to take the stage for the final time, and take her final bow. Fran touched a lot of lives in her time in Buckley, and the people who loved her are coming to say goodbye. It's not going to be easy. The things that are most important so very rarely are. They say she never missed a shot; she was the darling of the west. But now she's gone, and the ones she's left behind must figure out what this means for them.

Alice Healy is sixteen years old and chafing at the yoke of her father's regard. His overprotective streak has blossomed in the absence of his wife, leaving his teenage daughter sneaking out at every opportunity, trying to find herself and her place in the world without any parental support. But she knows the woods, and she knows what she wants to do with her life; it's just a question of whether she can keep herself alive long enough to actually accomplish her planned future. Thomas Price is a man still paying for his past. He's smart enough to understand that his assignment is essentially an exile, and has enough of a sense of self-preservation not to argue. Those who vex the Covenant of St. George rarely live long enough to explain themselves. At least in Buckley Township, he'll be far away from danger...unless you're counting Alice Healy. Worlds will collide and a new story will begin as Thomas Price arrives in his new home, and Alice Healy does her best to stay alive long enough to say hello for the first time.

Cryptide : Toute créature dont l'existence n'a pas encore été prouvée par la science. Voir aussi à "Monstre" Cryptozoologue : Toute personne qui pense que chasser les cryptides est une bonne idée. Voir aussi à "Idiot" Des goules. Des fantômes. Des créatures de la nuit.... Depuis des générations, la famille Price étudie les monstres du monde entier, et s'efforce de les protéger. Verity Price, elle, a d'autres plans d'avenir en tête. Pour se plier à la tradition familiale, elle a suivi des études en cryptozoologie, mais elle préfère danser le tango plutôt que de s'intéresser aux démons. Elle décide donc de s'installer pour un an à Manhattan afin de poursuivre sa carrière de danseuse de salon professionnelle. Une vie simple, en apparence. Sauf que... Elle a des souris qui parlent, une cousine mathématicienne et télépathe, et surtout elle se retrouve confrontée à un assassin professionnel mandaté par le Covenant de St-George. Cette organisation est l'ennemie jurée de la famille Price et veut à tout prix purger la ville des créatures surnaturelles qui l'habitent. Quand une fille Price rencontre un garçon du Covenant, il faut s'attendre à des étincelles, des danses endiablées, et de nombreux dommages collatéraux. Et pour couronner le tout, des cryptides locaux disparaissent, d'étranges hommes-lézards hantent les égouts, et quelqu'un s'amuse à répandre des rumeurs à propos d'un dragon soi-disant endormi sous la ville.... Une vie simple ? Pas si sûr !

Cryptid, nom: 1. Toute créature dont l'existence n'a pas encore été prouvée par la science. John Wall E., cryptozoologue, a été le premier à utiliser ce terme en 1983. 2. Créature qui est sur le point de vous dévorer la tête. 3. Voir aussi : « monstre ». La famille Price étudie les monstres qui peuplent le monde depuis des générations et s’efforce de les protéger des humains. Et de protéger les humains. Verity Price a suivi des études de cryptozoologie, mais elle préfère les danses de salon, et si possible, participer à des compétitions de haut niveau. Après avoir réglé leur compte à une bande de fanatiques qui vouaient un culte à un serpent, Verity pensait avoir gagné le droit de se reposer. Mais les choses se passent rarement comme on l’a prévu. Le séduisant Dominic de Luca, membre du Covenant de St. George, l’institution ennemie jurée de la famille Price, réapparaît pour la prévenir d’un grand danger. Le Covenant a décidé de purger Manhattan des cryptides. Hors de question qu’elle les laisse faire, trop de vies sont en jeu ! Entre ses colocataires (des souris qui parlent), sa cousine télépathe aux pouvoirs inquiétants et ses sentiments confus pour Dominic, Verity ne sait plus où donner de la tête. La vie n’est jamais un long fleuve tranquille, surtout pour une Price ! Alliances, mensonges, trahisons, morts... Verity va devoir affronter la pire épreuve de sa vie pour sauver ceux qu’elle aime. Et finalement, elle va peut-être faire un tour de danse, mais avec des ennemis mortels...

Antimony Price likes her life. She likes her high school, she likes her friends—even if none of them really know her as anything more than another face in the halls—and most of all, she likes her place on the cheerleading squad, where she understands what's expected of her, and delivers with grace, style, and a viciousness that has done a lot for her team's reputation. Too bad it's time to graduate. Now adrift in a world that doesn't have the rules she's used to or the protections she had worked so hard to shape, Antimony has to find something else to keep herself busy...and her cousin, Elsinore, has a few ideas about what that something might be. It's time for Antimony to meet the wide, wonderful world of roller derby. Let's hope that she survives the experience—and that everyone else survives her.

Grandir en tant que plus jeune de trois enfants n’est jamais facile. Le faire quand votre frère est un génie et que votre sœur est une danseuse de salon de classe mondiale est encore plus difficile. Le faire comme le dernier d’une longue lignée de cryptozoologistes, de chasseurs de monstres et de fugitifs? Limite impossible. C’est peut-être la raison pour laquelle Antimony Price a besoin de se défouler de temps en temps. Son activité parascolaire de choix? Roller derby. Sous le nom de « Final Girl », Antimony Price patine pour les Slasher Chicks, une équipe de roller derby sur piste plate et faisant partie de la plus grande ligue de derby Silver Screams, patinant à Portland, Oregon. Elle ne s’attendait pas à ce que le travail la suive sur la piste, mais maintenant les filles du derby s’effondrent, et quelqu’un pourrait être gravement blessé si la cause n’est pas découverte à temps. Mais pas de pression. Avec l’aide de ses cousines Elsie et Artie Harrington, et de ses amis sur la piste, Antimony peut-elle prouver qu’elle a choisi le bon nom de derby et vraiment arriver à la fin du combat ? Parce que cette Final Girl est dans un enfer de beaucoup de danger... « Bad Dream Girl » a été initialement publié dans l’anthologie Apex Glitter and Mayhem, sortie en août 2013. Des exemplaires sont disponibles dans une librairie près de chez vous.

Découvrez dans ce tome 3 l’univers d’Alex Price, le frère de Verity et retrouvez l’humour de la famille Price. Quand Alex Price a accepté de se rendre dans l’Ohio pour mener un programme de recherche sur la reproduction des basilics et veiller sur Sarah, sa cousine télépathe souffrante, il ne s’attendait pas à ce que la route soit jonchée de cadavres. Les corps s’accumulent au zoo où il travaille, et ils ont tous été changés en pierre. Dee, son assistante gorgone, serait-elle impliquée ? Pour couronner le tout, sa petite amie, Shelby Tanner, une zoologue passionnée de grands félins et qui ignore tout des cryptides, commence à se poser des questions. Mais Alex n’est pas un Price pour rien, et pas seulement parce qu’il vit avec des souris qui parlent. Quand un mystère surnaturel se dresse sur son chemin, il ne tourne pas les talons. Non. Il plonge tête la première. Et pour s’en sortir, il doit jongler entre sa vie personnelle et son boulot, et surtout, éviter de finir en statue de pierre.

Alexander Price a survécu à des gorgones, à des basilics, et à sa propre famille... Ce qui n’est pas peu dire, si on considère que cette dernière compte deux télépathes, un cadavre réanimé, et une colonie de souris qui parlent. C’est bon, il commence à avoir l’habitude. Les trucs bizarres, il gère... Du moins jusqu’à ce que sa petite amie, Shelby Tanner, déboule dans son bureau pour lui parler de loups-garous. Et pour lui demander si son passeport est valide. Avant d’avoir eu le temps de dire « kangourou », Alex se retrouve en Australie, véritable paradis pour cryptozoologue. Malheureusement, il y a aussi la famille de Shelby, qui lui en veut d’être partie si longtemps loin d’eux. Et les loups-garous dans tout ça ? Oh, une bagatelle. Des machines à tuer qui ne rêvent que d’infecter toute la population. Survivre n’est pas une sinécure quand on est en terrain connu, mais pour Alex Price, c’est encore pire. Il est à des milliers de kilomètres de chez lui, mais une chose est sûre : il ne se rendra pas sans se battre.

Destin, nom: 1. Course inévitable et irrépressible des évènements. 2. Avenir auquel on ne peut pas échapper. 3. Voir aussi à : « être foutu ». Verity Price est de retour, et elle reprend du service ! Sa mission : veiller sur les cryptides et les protéger des chasseurs de monstres. En gros, risquer sa vie pour le bien de tous. Sa carrière de danseuse de salon est donc loin derrière elle... Enfin, presque. Quand elle reçoit un appel des producteurs de "Dance or Die", l'émission de téléréalité qu'elle a failli remporter il y a quelques années, elle est incapable de résister à la tentation, et entraîne Dominic à Los Angeles. Une simple compétition ? En apparence, oui, mais on parle de Verity Price, qui attire les ennuis comme un aimant ! Deux concurrents sont retrouvés morts, les choses se corsent. Entre compétition de tango, meurtres et faux-semblants, Verity a fort à faire. Une compétition mortelle... dans tous les sens du terme ! "La série InCryptid est le roman d’urban fantasy le plus drôle que je connaisse après October Day » - Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Dernier tome de la série !

Improbable, adjective: 1. Not very likely to happen; not probable. 2. Probably not a very good idea anyway. 3. See also “bad plan.” As the youngest of the three Price children, Antimony is used to people not expecting much from her. She’s been happy playing roller derby and hanging out with her cousins, leaving the globe-trotting to her older siblings while she stays at home and tries to decide what she wants to do with her life. She always knew that one day, things would have to change. She didn’t think they’d change so fast. Annie’s expectations keep getting shattered. She didn’t expect Verity to declare war on the Covenant of St. George on live television. She didn’t expect the Covenant to take her sister’s threat seriously. And she definitely didn’t expect to be packed off to London to infiltrate the Covenant from the inside…but as the only Price in her generation without a strong resemblance to the rest of the family, she’s the perfect choice to play spy. They need to know what’s coming. Their lives may depend on it. But Annie has some secrets of her own, like the fact that she’s started setting things on fire when she touches them, and has no idea how to control it. Now she’s headed halfway around the world, into the den of the enemy, where blowing her cover could get her killed. She’s pretty sure things can’t get much worse. Antimony Price is about to learn just how wrong it’s possible for one cryptozoologist to be.

Penance, noun: 1. Punishment for past actions. 2. An attempt to pay for what can't be bought. 3. See also "exile." Antimony Price is on the run. With the Covenant on her tail and her family still in danger, she needs to get far, far away from anyone who might recognize her--including her own mice. For the first time in a long time, a Price is flying without a safety net. Where do you go when you need to disappear into a crowd without worrying about attracting attention? An amusement park, of course. Some people would call Lowryland the amusement park. It's one of the largest in Florida, the keystone of the Lowry entertainment empire...but for Annie, it's a place to hide. She's just trying to keep her head down long enough to come up with a plan that will get her home without getting anyone killed. No small order when she's rooming with gorgons and sylphs, trying to placate frustrated ghosts, and rushing to get to work on time. Then the accidents begin. The discovery of a dead man brings Annie to the attention of the secret cabal of magic users running Lowryland from behind the scenes. They want the fire that sleeps in her fingers. They want her on their side. They want to help her--although their help, like everything else, comes with a price. No plan. Minimal backup. No way out. Annie's abou

Crossroads, noun: 1. A place where two roads cross. 2. A place where bargains can be made. 3. See also “places to avoid.” Antimony Price has never done well without a support system. As the youngest of her generation, she has always been able to depend on her parents, siblings, and cousins to help her out when she’s in a pinch—until now. After fleeing from the Covenant of St. George, she’s found herself in debt to the crossroads and running for her life. No family. No mice. No way out. Lucky for her, she’s always been resourceful, and she’s been gathering allies as she travels: Sam, fūri trapeze artist turned boyfriend; Cylia, jink roller derby captain and designated driver; Fern, sylph friend, confidant, and maker of breakfasts; even Mary, ghost babysitter to the Price family. Annie’s actually starting to feel like they might be able to figure things out—which is probably why things start going wrong again. New Gravesend, Maine is a nice place to raise a family…or make a binding contract with the crossroads. For James Smith, whose best friend disappeared when she tried to do precisely that, it’s also an excellent place to plot revenge. Now the crossroads want him dead and they want Annie to do the dirty deed. She owes them, after all. And that’s before Leonard Cunningham, aka, “the next leader of the Covenant,” shows up… It’s going to take everything Annie has and a little bit more to get out of this one. If she succeeds, she gets to go home. If she fails, she becomes one more cautionary tale about the dangers of bargaining with the crossroads. But no pressure.

Sarah Zellaby has always been in an interesting position. Adopted into the Price family at a young age, she's never been able to escape the biological reality of her origins: she's a cuckoo, a telepathic ambush predator closer akin to a parasitic wasp than a human being. Friend, cousin, mathematician; it's never been enough to dispel the fear that one day, nature will win out over nurture, and everything will change. Maybe that time has finally come. After spending the last several years recuperating in Ohio with her adoptive parents, Sarah is ready to return to the world--and most importantly, to her cousin Artie, with whom she has been head-over-heels in love since childhood. But there are cuckoos everywhere, and when the question of her own survival is weighed against the survival of her family, Sarah's choices all add up to one inescapable conclusion. This is war. Cuckoo vs. Price, human vs. cryptid...and not all of them are going to walk away.

Just when Sarah Zellaby, adopted Price cousin and telepathic ambush predator, thought that things couldn't get worse, she's had to go and prove herself wrong. After being kidnapped and manipulated by her birth family, she has undergone a transformation called an instar, reaching back to her Apocritic origins to metamorphize. While externally the same, she is internally much more powerful, and much more difficult to control. Even by herself. After years of denial, the fact that she will always be a cuckoo has become impossible to deny. Now stranded in another dimension with a handful of allies who seem to have no idea who she is--including her cousin Annie and her maybe-boyfriend Artie, both of whom have forgotten their relationship--and a bunch of cuckoos with good reason to want her dead, Sarah must figure out not only how to contend with her situation, but with the new realities of her future. What is she now? Who is she now? Is that person someone she can live with? And when all is said and done, will she be able to get the people she loves, whether or not they've forgotten her, safely home?

Love, noun: 1. An intense feeling of deep affection; may be romantic, filial or platonic. Passion, noun: 1. A strong or barely controllable emotion. 2. Enthusiasm, interest, desire. 3. See also “obsession.” It’s been fifty years since the crossroads caused the disappearance of Thomas Price, and his wife, Alice, has been trying to find him and bring him home ever since, despite the increasing probability that he’s no longer alive for her to find. Now that the crossroads have been destroyed, she’s redoubling her efforts. It’s time to bring him home, dead or alive. Preferably alive, of course, but she’s tired, and at this point, she’s not that picky. It’s a pan-dimensional crash course in chaos, as Alice tries to find the rabbit hole she’s been missing for all these decades—the one that will take her to the man she loves. Who are her allies? Who are her enemies? And if she manages to find him, will he even remember her at this point? It’s a lot for one cryptozoologist to handle.

Reunion, noun: 1. The state of being united again. Reconciliation, noun: 1. An act of reconciling, as when former enemies agree to an amiable truce. 2. The process of making consistent or compatible. 3. See also “impossible.” Alice Price-Healy gave up her life for fifty years to focus completely on the search for her missing husband. The danger of focus like that is that it leaves little room for thinking about what happens after…and now that she’s finally managed to find Thomas, she has no idea what she’s supposed to do next. The fact that he comes with a surrogate daughter who may or may not have some connection to Alice’s recently adopted grandson is just icing on the complicated cake. So the three of them are heading for the most complicated place in the universe: they’re going home. But things on Earth have changed while Alice, Thomas, and Sally have been away. The Covenant of St. George, antagonized by Verity’s declaration of war and Sarah’s temporary relocation of an entire college campus, is trying to retake North America from the cryptids and cryptozoologists who’ve been keeping the peace for the past hundred years. And they’re starting in New York. Alice and company have barely been back for an hour before the Ocean Lady and the Queen of the Routewitches are sending them to New York to help, and they find themselves embroiled in the politics of dragons, kidnappings, and of course, the most dangerous people of all: family. Getting “back to normal” may be the hardest task Alice has undertaken yet.