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Before Wonderland
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Before Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

Author: Aveline Marsh

Clara Liddell believes dreams can heal grief, shame, memory, and the secret wounds people carry in silence. Elias Liddell believes no dream should ever become a cage. Together, they help create Wonderland, a world of roses, mirrors, clocks, impossible doors, dangerous courts, and beautiful things that answer too well.

Publication date: 2026-07-13
Language: English
But Wonderland is not content to remain a cure. As investors gather and scientists begin measuring desire, longing, obedience, and fear, the dream starts to hunger for the people who enter it. The Garden grows teeth. The mirrors learn to look back. The Heart Court wakes too early. And something older waits beneath the roots, listening for the child who has not yet been born.

When Wonderland recognises Alice before her first breath, Clara, Elias, and Beatrice Hart realise the dream has found more than a future subject. It has found a door. To protect their daughter, they must build a key, hide the truth, and face the terrible cost of loving someone enough to leave them behind.

Dark, romantic, and laced with gothic wonder, Before Wonderland is the origin story of The Wonderland Trials, an adult romantasy prequel for readers who crave dangerous dream worlds, forbidden love, beautiful monsters, tragic sacrifice, and the heartbreaking truth behind Alice Liddell’s first door.

Because Alice was never abandoned.

Only protected.

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