Hexed
From USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire comes another dark and delicious fractured fairy tale.
He's the prince of La Cosa Nostra. She's the witch who steals his heart.
Venesa Andersen has never been good. She wasn't good enough for her parents, and she isn't good enough for the gangster uncle who took her in after they died. But she's cunning. Beautiful. Dutiful to her uncle's demands. And she doesn't have time for a moral compass, anyway. When her runaway cousin returns to their coastal southern town, she brings a man with her…and Venesa soon realizes he's the only one who's ever seen her for her.
There's just one problem: she can never have him.
Enzo "Loverboy" Marino is a wealthy businessman by day and prince of the underworld by night. Underboss to a notorious mafia syndicate, he answers to no one except his father, the strongest don in the northeast. When he's tasked with marriage, Enzo doesn't think twice.
Until he meets his fiancée's cousin.
Venesa is everything he never knew he wanted, bewitching him with her sultry voice and supple curves. But Enzo learned long ago that for a man like him, life is better without the things you want. When plans unravel and temptation sings its siren song, they'll both have to choose what's more important: duty to their families or a forbidden love that was never supposed to be.
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Emily McIntire
Emily McIntire is a force of resilience and creativity, blending raw emotion with complex, morally gray characters in her gripping contemporary romances. Known for her ability to craft steamy, slow-burn love stories that keep readers turning the pages, Emily’s work resonates deeply with those who crave both passion and depth in their reading.
Her personal journey is as compelling as her novels. After surviving Stage IV breast cancer, Emily turned to writing as a way to cope with life’s challenges. What started as an outlet for personal healing quickly grew into a career, leading her to become a #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author. Her books, now translated into over a dozen languages, have touched the hearts of readers around the globe, often featuring fierce, flawed characters who fight for love and redemption.
Never After
In the Never After series, Emily McIntire takes well-known fairy tales and turns them inside out, giving villains their time to shine. What if the villains got their own story, one where love is complicated, redemption is hard-earned, and no one is as simple as they seem? This dark, seductive retelling of beloved characters invites readers into a world where the boundaries between hero and villain are blurred and every character carries scars—both literal and emotional.
Never After consists of six books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
