Crossed by Emily McIntire | Never After Series 5 |

📖 Book Information

Title: Crossed
Author: Emily McIntire
Series: Never After Series 5/6 (Standalone)
Genre: Dark Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Bloom Books
Publication Date: 1st August 2023
Format: Paperback (International Edition)
Pages: 438
ISBN: 978-1-7282-9082-9 
Language: English
Age Category: Adult

✨ Blurb

From bestselling author Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

He is righteousness. She is sin.

Father Cade Frédéric is a holy man. Brought up in the streets of Paris, he has dedicated his life to the church. But there’s a monster that lingers just beneath the surface. A sickness. One that bleeds darkness and feeds on the damned. When he’s tasked to become the priest in Festivalé, Vermont, a town both beautiful in architecture and riddled with despair, his sickness sings, demanding he rid the place of evil.

Amaya Paquette is Festivalé’s beautiful mystery. She spends her days caring for her younger brother and her nights transforming into Esmeralda, dancing for greedy eyes and shameless lips. Although she longs for love, she shies away from companionship, afraid of being abandoned again.

When Father Cade lays eyes on Amaya, he finds himself ensnared, convinced she’s using witchcraft to lure him to her. He can’t eat. Can’t breathe. Can’t think unless it’s of her.

And temptation is a devastating mistress.

She’s his weakness, so he decides he’ll be her demise…even if it means killing the only woman he might ever love.

*CROSSED is a dark, contemporary romance (not fantasy or a literal retelling) and the fifth complete standalone in the Never After series: fractured fairy tales inspired by our favorite villains. It features mature themes and content that may not be suitable for all readers. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. Detailed TW can be found on the author's website. This series can be enjoyed in any order.* 

❤️ Tropes

• Forbidden Romance

• Obsession

• He Falls First

• Enemies to Lovers

• Forced Proximity

• Priest Romance

• Morally Grey MMC

🌶️ Spice Level

Rating: 🌶🌶🌶🌶  

Description:
Explicit open door romance with heavy emphasis on praise, degradation, breeding/fertility, and exhibitionism. 

⚠️ Content & Trigger Warnings

This book may contain themes including:

• Explicit sexual content

• Religious trauma

• Sacrilege

• Violence

• Arson

• Mental health themes

• Abuse & manipulation

*Check the author’s website for a full list of trigger warnings. 

📦 Edition Details

• Signed: No

• Sprayed Edges: No

• Foiled Cover:  No

• Reversible Dust Jacket: No

• Illustrated Endpapers: No

• Bonus Content:  No

• Exclusive Edition: No

📚 Perfect For Readers Who Enjoy

• Siobhan Davis

• Selena Winters 

• Lessons in Sin by Pam Godwin 

• Priest by Sierra Simone 

ℹ️ Additional Information

Please note that colours may vary slightly due to screen settings.

If purchasing a special edition, minor imperfections from the publisher may occasionally be present and do not necessarily qualify as defects.