A retelling of Alice's adventures in wonderland. Though dark elements abound in the original novels, this Wonderland is an architecture of danger, death, and magic so powerful it can do awful deeds by those who have stolen it from the nobility and assumed their power as here own. No one is who you think they are! All are victims of human frailty. Alice is the one true Magician whose power sets all aright but cannot save everyone. Brilliantly plotted, and with author's touch of magic makes the story more human such that the dwellers in this spellbound world are not freaks, but humans trying to return home to rebuild family, friends and believers a all things wonder-filled.