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. ***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. TropesFractured Fairy TaleForbidden LoveMafia RomanceDark RomanceSpicy RomanceThe Never After Series:HookedScarredWretchedTwistedCrossedHexed*Hexed made the Sunday Times Bestsellers list in November 2024