Wonderland Books in Order

The Wonderland series is a romantic time travel saga built around Everly Manor, a Tudor estate in the English countryside, and the hidden passage that threads its way through time. At the center are Neve Ashley, a twenty first century film location scout, and Lord Hugo Everly, a seventeenth century nobleman whose sudden disappearance became local legend.

In The Passage, Neve visits Everly Manor after a personal tragedy, charmed by its tapestries and stories about Hugo’s unexplained vanishing in 1685. While exploring the nearby church, she discovers a secret stairway and an old wooden door. Stepping through, she finds herself in the middle of the Monmouth Rebellion and directly in the path of Hugo’s galloping horse. What begins as shock and captivity slowly turns into an intense connection between two people divided by three hundred years.

Subsequent books track the consequences of that choice to stay. In Wonderland, Neve accompanies Hugo into a dangerous London, trying to save a disgraced relative from the gallows. Their plan goes badly wrong when Neve is accused of witchcraft, imprisoned, and forced to confront just how vulnerable she is in a time that does not recognize her rights.

Sins of Omission and The Queen’s Gambit move the Everlys to France and then back home again, as they seek refuge from political enemies and old debts. Espionage, court intrigues, and betrayals follow them across borders. Threads begun in earlier volumes – particularly the fate of Hugo’s relative Max and the impact of the timeslip on other members of the family – tighten into more immediate danger.

By Comes the Dawn, the stakes could not be higher. Hugo faces a charge of treason, Neve is once more threatened with accusations that could lead to the scaffold, and the family must decide whether to cling to honor in a hostile age or use the time passage to run for their lives. Their choices have permanent consequences for those they love and for the generations that come after.

A companion story, Jem’s Journey, focuses on a younger member of the Everly clan who leaves home for London, only to find that adulthood is far less straightforward than he imagined. It adds depth to the world by showing how the great decisions made by Neve and Hugo ripple out into quieter, more personal struggles.

Throughout the series, the time travel element is both wonder and trap. The passage is not easily controlled, and moving between eras carries emotional costs. Shapiro leans into questions of identity, loyalty, and belonging: is home the time you were born into, or the people you choose to stand beside, even when history puts a price on it?