Zoe Hana Mikuta

Zoe Hana Mikuta delivers a bloody and unrelenting fantasy about young witches dangling on the edge of love and obsession, of magic and madness, of life and death (and death and death and death). . . Just like her mother and her mother?s mother, 18-year-old Vanity Adams is destined to lead a lavish life under the patronship of the Museum, someday taking her place as its premiere necromantic Spectacle and the centerpiece of their weekly soirees thrown for the City?s elite.But until that day, Vanity (and the other young witches of the Museum) is isolated from the outside world and purged of her magic?magic being particularly unstable for teenagers and often leading to antisocial conduct, mood swings, bloodlust, delusions, and, most concerning, a habitual, violent obsession with one another.To all of this, Vanity thinks: Well, whatever. Better than being confined to the Sanatorium with the less fortunate witches, imprisoned in a chemically induced coma as her blood is harvested to make World, the City?s favorite designer drug. At least she?ll be dead someday, there?s always that. And at least the Museum has Arrogance, Vanity?s twin sister, who just might remember how to do magic, and who just might be where our story begins. . . .

Now in paperback! Fans of Chloe Gong and Judy I. Lin will devour this Korean-inspired Alice in Wonderland retelling about two very wicked girls, forever bonded by blood and betrayal . . .In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark Forest where they lurk, young witches and lovers Carousel Rabbit and Iccadora Alice Sickle were once both imprisoned in that Forest for a crime they didn?t commit. But their freedom came at a devastating cost. Now, five years later, Caro is a successful royal Saint-harvester, living the high life in the glittering capital and pretending not to know of the twisted monster experiments that her beloved Red Queen hides deep in the bowels of the palace. But for Icca, the memory of Caro?s betrayal has hardened her from timid girl to ruthless hunter. A hunter who will stop at nothing to exact her vengeance: On Caro. On the Queen. On the throne itself. But there?s a secret about the Saints the Queen?s been guarding, and a volatile magic at play even more dangerous to Icca and Caro than they are to each other. . . .Fierce, fantastical, and utterly uncanny, this Korean-inspired reimagining of Alice in Wonderland by author Zoe Hana Mikuta will send readers down a dizzying rabbit hole and into a world drenched in blood and betrayal.