Red tilts her head, a question in her eyes. 'He's quite mad, you know.' I don't bother to hide the smirk that stretches my lips, showing her my teeth. 'All the best people are.'
I wasn't expecting to find a man whilst drowning my sorrows and hiding from my responsibilities in the filthiest bar in the city.
Hatter is elusive, beautiful… and sad.
Tempting enough to make me throw my usual caution aside and steal him. Just for a night. One night, to help us both forget.
I expected him to leave me. But I didn't expect the invitation he left behind.
Wonder. The most exclusive club in the city. Always moving, never discovered, and impossible to enter without permission. So naturally, I stole it. Except Wonder isn't quite what the whispers say. Once you enter, you can't leave without permission.
Red runs Wonder with an iron fist, a calculating mind, and possession in her gaze. When I find myself in the middle of Red's games, I'll need to use every skill I have to keep me and the men around me alive.
She likes to collect broken things. Maybe I'm the most shattered of them all. But Hatter, Buck, Aiden, Kayden, and Chess won't let me fall. They shine a light on my nightmares, offering a shield against the grief that haunts me even as I rip theirs apart in return.
Red thinks she's facing Alyss Lidell.
I'm much, much more than that.
This is a standalone, contemporary, why-choose retelling of Alice in Wonderland with five morally grey men and an FMC who fights for what she wants.