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Playing Hearts
A Fantasy Novel by W. R. Gingell
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Portal Fantasy,
- Alice in Wonderland Retelling,
- Underworld Adventure,
- Arranged Marriage,
- Madcap
This book is for you if you're into...
- Return trips to bizarre worlds where nothing makes sense
- Mad royals, unpredictable alliances, and reluctant fiancés
- Offbeat quests featuring teapots, Jabberwock battles, and upside-down logic
It begins the way it has always begun: with a card on Mabel's pillow. But Mabel has been in Underland before, and she's not so anxious to go back. No matter what name it takes, Underland is always bizarre, always mad, always dangerous.
There's the Queen of Hearts, terrifying, powerful, and possibly insane. There's Hatter, purple-eyed and undoubtedly mad. March Hare has always been one sandwich short of a picnic, and Sir Blanc is missing his wits.
And then there's Jack. Jack the aristocratic son of the Queen. Not quite mad, but not far off. Disinclined to help anyone but himself. A liar. And, thanks to an ancient ceremony performed by the Queen, Mabel's fiancé.
Fall into the rabbit hole with Mabel as she climbs through tea-pots, battles the Jabberwock, and attempts to overthrow the Queen of Hearts herself.
Don't lose your head. And whatever you do, don't be late...
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