Alice Deane is a primary character in Joseph Delaney's phenomenally successful book series, The Wardstone Chronicles. She first appeared in The Spook's Apprentice as a witch training under Bony Lizzie, but redeemed herself soon after and has remained a love interest of Tom Ward through the good and the bad where she has every now and then become an assistant of the dark unintentionally. As of yet, Alice has appeared in every single book of the main series, except The Spook's: Slither's Tale and A New Darkness.