title: Malice in Downunderland. Book One
author: Crowfoot, Jennifer
description: Always taking her holidays in the country, Aussie woman, Rose White, expected noisy crowds, a frisbee to the back of the head, third-degree sunburn, irritating sand in hidden places, and squawking mobs of hungry sea gulls thieving her hot chips on her first-ever beach holiday.What she didn't expect was the swanky boutique hotel she was staying at to be apparently devoid of other guests, and having the stretch of beautiful beach fronting it, all to herself.After coming perilously close to drowning when she unknowingly drifts too far from shore and continually gets swamped by angry waves, Rose is rescued just when she's given up, by the stunning Rad Hatter, a heavily tattooed surfie with a penchant for dressing in purple clothing, for wearing Akubra hats over his long icy curls, and has a crazy habit of talking and arguing with himself.But gorgeous Rad isn't a lone deal, he comes with three equally odd and sexy friends who all happen to work in the same organisation. They're Rebels who're working to dethrone the wicked Bogan Queen and her hen-pecked consort, the King of Pubs, and take back their country for the people of the magical world, Reflection.Due to an old prophesy proclaiming her as Reflection's champion, Rose has been gently carried - confused and hopelessly in lust - into their world and into the cause for liberty. Reflection is a twilight world that continually befuddles Rose no end with it's unbelievable inhabitants, and its weird magic.In Reflection, she meets Murphy, a clock-loving, monocle and top hat wearing White Rabbit who's as mad as they come, and Rad's housemate, Tark, a sweet mouse who dresses in long-shorts and flanno shirts and carries a tiny sword strapped to his back.He's also a wizard in the kitchen, a fact which food-loving Rose appreciates.After the Rebel's tea party is interrupted by the queen's guard, and Rose is captured, she's forced onto the back of one of the cranky cassowaries making up the Bogan Queen's royal herd by her two bodyguards, Bazza and Jono, a couple of smelly idiots who dress in black suits and look suspiciously like frill-necked lizards and taken to the queen's palace, Downunderland, Rose sees drunken animals staggering out of the front door, a pot of singing flowers in tutus and tiaras, and a musician cat who happens to have a trumpet attached to his head.Oh, and as if that's not enough for Rose to take in, there's a dragon named Rodger, who used to be an active Rebel member, but who now lives under the Queen's spell as a spy, in one of Downunderland's dungeons.