Heartless [Hardcover]

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller thatGregory Maguire (WickedandAfter Alice)calls full of heart.

Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.

Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen.

Then Cath meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. At the risk of offending the king and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans.

In her first stand-alone teen novel, theNew York Times-bestselling author dazzles us with a prequel toAlice's Adventures in Wonderland.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller!
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InHeartless,the nonsense that is Wonderland gets a reverential makeover, full of heart and its own idiosyncratic character. --Gregory Maguire, WICKED and AFTER ALICE

What Gregory Maguire did for the Wicked Witch, Meyer does for Lewis Carrolls Queen of Hearts,tracing her arc from a teen with dreams of owning a bakery into a mulsW