First published 2025
The Queen of Hearts once knew wonder. Now she rules Wonderland through fury and royal decrees that barely hold chaos at bay. Before Alice tumbled down the rabbit hole, before the famous trial and croquet games, the Queen arrived as a lost woman in a world built from broken fragments of other places. She faced the same impossible landscape that would later confound Alice, but her journey took a darker turn. The nonsensical realm refused to bend to logic or reason. Her attempts to impose order through increasingly desperate laws became the tyrannical rule Alice would eventually challenge. The Queen fights against something growing dark inside her while forming an unexpected bond with a small white rabbit. Her anger masks a deeper struggle against the madness that Wonderland breeds in those who cannot escape its twisted logic.
Genres: fantasy, dark-fantasy, fairy-tale-retellings, historical-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional
Tropes: dark-protagonist, unexpected-bond
Setting: Wonderland
Period: 19th-century
336 pages · Hardcover · Random House/Disney
Content warnings: violence