Age range 14 and up Rally the Chessmen! Wonderland is under attack! Dashing rogue Ovid Grey, an exMilliner, is ordered to Earth by Queen Alyss and charged with recovering a shard of Heart Crystal that's powering crossrealm riots of Black Imagination. He teams with a British secret agent and embarks on a quest that takes him from London to Venice, discovering along the way that, to succeed, he'll very much have to act the criminal. Crystal shard in hand, Ovid returns home with the devastating intel that Wonderland is about to be attacked by the barbaric tribes of neighboring Boarderland. Ovid vows to fight for Queen Alyss, who activates the Chessboard; battalions of Chessmen take to the streets of Wondertropolis and beyond, occupying defensive positions. And then... They come: axewielding Boarderlanders eager for blood, galloping in on the mutant jabberwocky known as jabbers. Black Imagination, rampaging Rumble Makers, and the future of Wonderland: all are caught in the crossfire of this thrilling followup to the New York Times bestselling trilogy, The Looking Glass Wars. Once again Wonderland's forces of light must unite to battle the darkness.

Author Biography

Literary Sleuth and world creator Frank Beddor dared to expose the true story of Wonderland in the New York Times bestselling young adult trilogy The Looking Glass Wars. To satisfy the awakened curiosity of his readers he continued to tell the parallel adventures of Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan's search for the lost princess in the graphic novel series Hatter M. He lives in Los Angeles. Curtis Clark was raised the son of a farmer in the small town of Wacousta, MI. His work has grown from picking rocks to building worlds. As a lifelong comic book fan, he couldn't be more excited for the publication of his first graphic novel. Curtis currently lives in Los Angeles where he also writes for film and television. Finnish artist Sami Makkonen illustrated the graphic novels Blue (2008) and Deadworld Slaughterhouse (2009) for Desperado before signing on to visually document the travels of Hatter Madigan. A first place recipient of the 2007 Sarjis award for best fantasy comic (writer and illustrator) Sami is a graduate of the University of Tartu Estonia and has illustrated web comics for Chemistry Set and Split Lip as well as CD covers for Finnish artists Rodsogarden and Anssi Kela.