Heartless

From Marissa Meyer, the #1 New York Times-bestselling story of Wonderland's most notorious villain: the Queen of Hearts.

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 Heartless, her first stand-alone teen novel, the New York Times-bestselling author dazzles us with a prequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

About the Author

Marissa Meyer is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles series-Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, Fairest, Winter, the New York Times-bestselling Renegades trilogy, as well as the graphic novel Wires and Nerve.

Her first standalone novel, Heartless, was also a #1 New York Times bestseller. Her contemporary romance, Instant Karma, was a #1 Indie Bestseller. In 2021 Meyer published Gilded, the first novel of her two-part retelling of the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin. And in 2022 she was a contributor to and editor of the collection of romance stories Serendipity. Marissa lives in Tacoma, Washington, with her husband and their two daughters.