The book cover of 'Wretched' by Emily McIntire, featuring a dark green background with a teal line-art illustration of a city skyline, stars, and a crescent moon. The spine is visible on the right side, showing a purple and teal marbled pattern.

Wretched by Emily McIntire | Never After Series 3 | Collector's Edition

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The book cover of 'Wretched' by Emily McIntire, featuring a dark green background with a teal line-art illustration of a city skyline, stars, and a crescent moon. The spine is visible on the right side, showing a purple and teal marbled pattern.
  • The book cover of 'Wretched' by Emily McIntire, featuring a dark green background with a teal line-art illustration of a city skyline, stars, and a crescent moon. The spine is visible on the right side, showing a purple and teal marbled pattern.
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  • The book cover of 'Wretched' by Emily McIntire, featuring a dark green background with a teal line-art illustration of a city skyline, stars, and a crescent moon. The spine is visible on the right side, showing a purple and teal marbled pattern.
  • A green hardcover book shown from the back, featuring a decorative border, script text with a quote, and a barcode label near the bottom, photographed against a light beige background.
  • A hardcover book titled 'Wretched' with a dark green cover and a patterned spine featuring purple, gold, and black tones, shown against a plain off-white background.
Wretched by Emily McIntire | Never After Series 3 | Collector's Edition

Wretched by Emily McIntire | Never After Series 3 | Collector's Edition

£19.99

📖 Book Information

Title: Wretched
Author: Emily McIntire
Series: Never After Series 3/6 (Standalone)
Genre: Dark Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Bloom Books
Publication Date: 10th February 2026
Format: Hardback (Collectors Edition)
Pages: 261
ISBN: 978-1-4642-4466-7
Language: English
Age Category: Adult

 

 

✨ Blurb

From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Emily McIntire, comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of The Wizard of Oz.


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. That is, 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 realizes the youngest daughter of the Westerly empire is the same woman he's been fantasizing about since that night at the club, attraction wars violently with disgust. 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 is a dark contemporary romance and the third complete standalone in The Never After Series: A collection of fractured fairy tales inspired by our favorite villains. It is not fantasy and it is not a retelling. Reader discretion is advised. For all content warnings, check the author's website.*


 

 

❤️ Tropes

  • Morally Grey FMC

  • Undercover Agent

  • Enemies to Lovers

  • Forbidden Romance

  • Forced Proximity

  • Criminal Underworld / Mafia

  • One Night Stand

  • Secret Identity

 

 

🌶️ Spice Level

Rating: 🌶🌶🌶🌶  

Description:
Explicit and intense adult scenes with heavy emphasis on domination/submission and praise/degradation. 

 

 

⚠️ Content & Trigger Warnings

This book may contain themes including:

  • Violence

  • Drug cartel themes

  • Grief & loss

  • Abuse & manipulation

  • Mental health themes

  • Explicit sexual content

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

 

 

📦 Edition Details

  • Signed: Yes

  • Sprayed Edges: Yes

  • Foiled Cover: Yes

  • Reversible Dust Jacket: No

  • Illustrated Endpapers:  Yes

  • Bonus Content: No

  • Exclusive Edition: No

 

 

📚 Perfect For Readers Who Enjoy

  • Cora Reilly 

  • Somme Sketcher

  • Ruthless People by J.J. McAvoy 

  • The Mindf*ck Series by S.T. Abby

 

 

ℹ️ Additional Information

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

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