Welcome back to Wonderland.
Nothing here survives unchanged.
Red Queen, Yellow
King
The Book of Alice #1
by Jack Finn
Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy, Alice in Wonderland Retelling
This is book #1 of The Book of Alice duology.
Wonderland has fallen. And something older than kings has
taken its place.
Alice returns to consciousness in a ruined palace, her body broken, her mind
fractured, her sister enslaved by a queen who wears a crown of thorns and a
smile of knives. The Looking Glass is shattered. The Hatter has turned. The
White Queen is dead.
But beyond the bloody thrones and broken teacups lies something even
stranger—an echo of a play that should never be performed, whispered by a
masked god in yellow.
To save what little remains, Alice must navigate a sea of madness, hunt down a
missing monarch, and confront the truth behind her own unraveling story.
Some fairy tales end in fire. Others in silence.
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The Red Queen played the long game. She murdered the White Queen and
spared Alice, Ava, Hatter, and Lady Cheshire the purge that followed; even
Tinker was allowed to live just long enough to complete his devices for the
journey. Holding Ava and the Cheshire girls hostage, even releasing the giants,
was all part of a plan the Red Queen had mapped out in her mind well in
advance. She wanted the Azure Queen dead and the Red King back. Now all her
pieces were in play on the chessboard.
Like every game, chess had rules.
Alice never played by the rules.
She would make her own rules.
She would beat the Red Queen at her own game.
Alice doing Alice things.
Jack Finn is a horror author and active Horror Writers Association
member living in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two
fiendishly clever dogs. He is a lifelong believer that the Tooth Fairy proves
you can trade body parts for cold, hard cash.
His books by the include, The Wolves of Kalinin werewolf duology: Prey Upon the
Lambs (Anuci Press 2025) and The Desolation of Hunters (Anuci Press 2025); the
horror collection They Come When You Sleep (Velox Books 2025), a re-envisioning
of the Dracula mythos in the standalone novel The Seven Deaths of Prince Vlad
(Anuci Press 2024), and the folk horror collection, Legend of the Deer Woman
(Crow Street Press, 2023).
The excerpt sounds good. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSounds intriguing.
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