QUEEN OF HEARTS COMPLETE COLLECTION
Queen of Hearts, Blood of Wonderland, War of the Cards
3 Book Collection
This e-book collection first published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018
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Queen of Hearts, Text Copyright © 2016 by Colleen Oakes
Blood of Wonderland, Text Copyright © 2017 by Colleen Oakes
War of the Cards, Text Copyright © 2017 by Colleen Oakes
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Cover art © Ruben Ireland 2016, 2017, Cover Design by Jenna Stempel
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Source ISBNs:
Queen of Hearts 9780008175405
Blood of Wonderland 9780008175436
War of the Cards 9780008175467
Ebook edition © 2017 ISBN 9780008273316
Version: 2017-12-11
Contents
Copyright
Queen of Hearts
Blood of Wonderland
About the Publisher
“How do you like the Queen?” said the Cat in a low voice.
“Not at all,” said Alice: “she’s so extremely—” Just then she noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she went on,“—likely to win, that it’s hardly worth while finishing the game.”
— Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
“Oh, my future queen, you’re late!” Harris hopped from one foot to the other, his plump face soaked with a cold sweat. He pulled off his thick-rimmed glasses and wiped them on his white checkered ascot. “Dinah! Walk faster, Your Highness! We are late, late, late!” He looked down at his pocket watch with an exaggerated sigh.
Dinah, Princess of Wonderland and future Queen of Hearts, rolled her eyes.
“Harris, I’m walking as swiftly as I can.”
“With all due respect, my dear, we have a very important summons from the King of Hearts. Your father wishes to see you. You know he is not a patient man.”
Dinah continued to shuffle down the Hallway of the Golden Birds feeling quite like one of the ridiculous bronze fowl perched on the golden pedestals that surrounded her.
A little bird ran across her path, and Dinah stomped near its feet, sending it shrieking into the air.
“My child!” thundered Harris. “Control your emotions! I beg of you—do not let your father see that behavior or you will be sleeping in the Black Towers.”
“I doubt it,” snipped Dinah glumly. “I wish that would happen, because then I would get to see inside them.”
Harris gave Dinah a disappointed look. “Never wish yourself inside the Black Towers,” he said gravely. “You have no idea the evil that lurks there.”
Dinah considered slowing her pace just to annoy him but took pity on her guardian and tutor, the man who had raised her from childhood. Harris had once been a dashing Card, or so Dinah had heard, but now he was somewhat walrus-like, a portly man with white hair and a dozen varieties of checkered outfits. Without a doubt, he loved Dinah deeply—something she lacked in other areas of her life. Dinah raised her voice, its sharp tone bouncing off the ornate halls of Wonderland Palace.
“Why should I have to go to the Great Hall? I never get to say anything, and Father won’t even talk to me.” Or look at me, she thought.
Harris patted her roughly on the head. “You