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Hexed

A Dark Contemporary Romance and Fractured Fairy Tale
By Emily McIntire
Series: Never After
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A dark contemporary romance from viral BookTok and USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire, featuring reimagined characters from popular fairy tales and other stories. 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... Read More
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A dark contemporary romance from viral BookTok and USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire, featuring reimagined characters from popular fairy tales and other stories.

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 realises 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.

Hexed joins the Never After series as a dark and sexy reimagining of a classic tale, twisting it into an enticing new shape for mature readers.

Tropes
Fractured Fairy Tale
Forbidden Love
Mafia Romance
Dark Romance
Spicy Romance

The Never After Series:
Hooked
Scarred
Wretched
Twisted
Crossed
Hexed

Series: Never After

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781728297408

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 November 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloom Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 426g

Pages: 624

Collections

Contemporary Romance Crime & Thriller Emily McIntire Fiction Forbidden Romance General Fiction Romance Series: Never After

About the Author

Emily McIntire is a USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon bestselling author whose stories serve steam, slow burns, and seriously questionable morals. Her books have been translated in over a dozen languages, and span across several subgenres within romance. A stage IV breast cancer thriver, you can find Emily enjoying free time with her family, getting lost in a good book, or redecorating her house depending on her mood.

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