Alyss Heart is a fictional character in The Looking-Glass Wars and its sequel, Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor. The stories are based on Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland books and Alyss is based on the character Alice. The preface of the novels is that Wonderland is quite real and Alice was a real person although (in the fictional context of the story) her name is correctly spelled Alyss and she is in fact the rightful queen of Wonderland.