From USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairytale of The Little Mermaid.
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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Exploring dark romance, fractured morals, and high-stakes emotional conflicts, romance fiction across sub-genres offers readers high heat, slow-burning suspense, and complex antiheroes. Author Emily McIntire established her place on international bestseller lists through contemporary and fractured-fairy-tale romance novels where happy endings are earned through intense conflict.
Her popular releases include Hooked from the Never After series and Hexed, which reimagine traditional antagonist dynamics into standalone romantic narratives featuring morally ambiguous characters.
A #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Emily McIntire began her writing journey driven by a lifelong passion for reading and storytelling focused on deep emotional connections. Over the course of her career, her romance novels have spanned multiple sub-genres and have been translated into more than a dozen languages for readers around the world.
In addition to her publishing accomplishments, McIntire is a stage IV breast cancer thriver who has maintained no evidence of active disease for over a year. Residing in East Tennessee with her husband, daughter, and three cats, she balances her author career with reading, home redecorating, and spending time with her family.
McIntire's signature writing style features high steam, slow burns, and characters with seriously questionable morals. Her narratives frequently examine tropes such as hate-to-love, forced proximity, secret identities, corrupt small towns, and forbidden relationships where stakes remain high and character motivations test traditional moral boundaries.
Whether writing interconnected standalone books in the Never After series, the Sugarlake series, or the Defying the Stars series, she blends electric chemistry with emotional tension, ensuring that her characters face formidable obstacles before reaching their happily ever after.
