Wretched (Collector’s Edition) : A Dark Contemporary Romance and Fractured Fairy Tale (Never After Book 3)

Published 10/02/2026 | Hardback,
Description:

** The unmissable Collector’s Edition of the third book in the Never After series **Beautifully crafted and packed with exclusive content, this hardcover Collector’s Edition of Wretched features a brand new cover, stained page edges and bonus material inside, including beautifully designed interior art.

***A dark contemporary romance from viral BookTok and USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire, featuring reimagined characters from popular fairy tales and other stories.

A woman can be great, and terrible too.

Evelina Westerly has always been “the bad guy”. As the brains, brawn, and botanist behind her family’s drug empire, she’s her father’s ruthless secret weapon. With her days divided between perfecting her greenhouse, seeking revenge for her sister’s murder, and putting a gun to the head of anyone in her way, Evelina doesn’t have time for anything else. Especially not for love. After a one-night stand with a gorgeous man at a nightclub, she’s sated her urges and is back to her criminal ways. Until that same man shows up as the new Westerly lackey…under a totally different name.

But Nicholas Woodsworth’s real secret is much more dangerous than an alias. He’s an undercover DEA agent, and he’s hell-bent on destroying the drug trade that devastated his family. When he realises the youngest daughter of the Westerly empire is the same woman he’s been fantasising about since that night at the club, attraction wars violently with disgust within him. Evelina embodies everything he’s against, and he’s been sent here to be her downfall. Yet the more they learn about the darkness in each other’s hearts, the more alike they seem—and when hatred turns to something more, Nicholas will have to decide whether he can love a wretched woman…even if it means bringing both of their lives to ruin.

Wretched 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.

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