The Trial of Hearts

As the dream tightens around her, Alice begins to question what the researchers knew about her, why Wonderland recognised her and how her parents are connected to the Trial. At its centre waits a crown, along with a choice no one else can make for her. The Trial of Hearts is a sensual fantasy about grief, desire and power, and about finding the difference between being wanted and being free to choose.

Once Wonderland wants you, it does not let go.
Alice Liddell enters the Wonderland Trial for money, one night of monitored dreaming in exchange for the chance to escape her old life. But the dream recognises her.
At twenty-one, Alice is restless, grieving, and desperate for a life that finally belongs to her. The mysterious dream research study promises safety, supervision, and enough money to fund her year abroad. Instead, Alice wakes inside a dark and seductive Wonderland of roses, mirrors, clocks, impossible doors, dangerous courts, and beautiful monsters.

A world built from grief.
A world shaped by desire.
A world that knows exactly what she wants before she is brave enough to admit it.

Darius Charm is temptation with a smile sharp enough to wound. Gideon Gale is restraint, mystery, and the kind of safety that feels more dangerous than desire. Vivienne is beauty, truth, and the unsettling freedom of being seen too clearly.

Each of them offers Alice something she craves.
Each of them could cost her something she cannot afford to lose.

As the Trial tightens around her, Alice must face the truth about her parents, the dream system that found her before she was born, and the crown waiting at the centre of Wonderland. Because being wanted is not the same as being loved.

And in Wonderland, every heart must choose before it is claimed.

Dark, sensual, and impossible to put down, Alice in Wonderland: The Trial of Hearts is Book One in The Wonderland Trials, also known as the TWT book series. This adult romantasy reimagining is for readers who crave dangerous fantasy worlds, forbidden desire, gothic atmosphere, beautiful monsters, morally complicated temptation, and love that only matters if it leaves the door open.

This is Book One of the TWT book series.