Hexed

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

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Heâs the prince of La Cosa Nostra. Sheâs the witch who steals his heart.

Venesa Andersen has never been good. She wasnât good enough for her parents, and she isnât good enough for the gangster uncle who took her in after they died. But sheâs cunning. Beautiful. Dutiful to her uncleâs demands. And she doesnât have time for a moral compass, anyway. When her runaway cousin returns to their coastal southern town, she brings a man with herâ¦and Venesa soon realises heâs the only one whoâs ever seen her for her.

Thereâs just one problem: she can never have him.

Enzo âLoverboyâ 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 heâs tasked with marriage, Enzo doesnât think twice.

Until he meets his fianc©eâs 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, theyâll both have to choose whatâs 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

*Hexed made the Sunday Times Bestsellers list in November 2024