- Publisher: Enclave Escape
- Available in: Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBN: 1621842142
- Published: July 12, 2022
Solve the clues. Face your fears. Survive the Trials.
All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago. But she gets more than she bargained for when her older sister Charlotte is arrested for having the infamous Wonder Gene—the key to unlocking the curious Wonderland Reality.
Soon, Alice receives a rather cryptic invitation to play for Team Heart in this year’s annual—and often deadly—Wonderland Trials. Now she has less than twenty-four hours to find her way into Wonderland where nothing is impossible… or what it seems.
The stakes are raised when she discovers players go missing during the Trials each year. Will she and her team solve the clues and find the missing players? Or will betrayal and distrust win, leaving Alice alone in a world of her own? Follow the White Rabbit into this topsy-turvy fantasy where players become prey, a sip of the wrong tea might as well be poison, and a queen’s ways do not always lead one where they ought to go.
In The Wonderland Trials, Sara Ella crafts a dystopian retelling of Lewis Carroll’s classic, reinventing with flair all Wonderland’s denizens and infusing the story with freshness. It is inventive and colorful in its own right, abundantly able to charm and to intrigue.” ― Lorehaven Magazine
The Wonderland Trials is a grown-up, grittier version of the beloved Alice in Wonderland classic where nothing is quite what it seems and seeing with one’s heart is the most important thing. Sara Ella has crafted a compelling tale full of whimsy, magic, love, and courage. — C.J. Redwine, New York Times bestselling author of the Ravenspire series.
The Wonderland Trials is everything I want in an Alice retelling: magic and family and infuriatingly adorable romance, all bound together in a story that rejects—and even redefines—the impossible. Sara Ella has written an addicting concoction of courage, clues, and mysterious white rabbit trails that will keep you guessing, keep you gulping your if-only-it-was-magical tea, and keep you turning pages through all topsy turvy hours of the night.” — Nadine Brandes, award-winning author of Romanov, Fawkes, and the Out of Time Series
Full of intrigue and packed with ingenious nods to Lewis’s masterpiece, The Wonderland Trials is a triumph. Clues and questions, friendships and a budding romance, set me racing down every flipped, upside down and backwards turn. The only bump in the road is that unless @MadTea blends Sara Ella a Flying Typist brew, I have to bide my time for Book Two. — Katherine Reay, Best-selling Author of Dear Mr. Knightley and The London House
Reminiscent of a terrifyingly beautiful dream, The Wonderland Trials is a reimagining certain to mesmerize with its quirky, yet familiar, cast of characters, whimsical world-building, and treacherous intrigue. Readers will tumble head over heels for this visionary fantasy and will be left searching for the Wonder in themselves.” — Lorie Langdon, author of Olivia Twist, and the Disney Villains Happily Never After Series
The Wonderland Trials’ fresh, modern take on a classic beckoned me down the rabbit hole—and I never want to leave! With plenty of nods to the original story, Sara Ella has crafted a world where fantasy bleeds into reality, and one never knows where the game stops and real life begins. This is Alice reimagined, and I’m all in.” — Lindsay A. Franklin, Carol Award–winning author of The Story Peddler
