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This set will include the following:
🔔Crossed
🐚Hexed

✨Book Synopsis✨

Crossed

He is righteous. 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.

Hexed

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 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.

Why we love the Never After series:
🔔Saint x SINNER(s)
🔔Spicy Secrets
🐚Forced Proximity
🐚She’s a Venomous Vixen, He’s Mafia Royalty
🐚Dark and Twisty Plot

Special Edition details:
💎Foiled Author Signature @itsemilymcintire
💎Hard Case Artwork with Foiled Details by Ariel Waters @thebookishbox_artists
💎Hard Case Titlework with Foiled Details by @Rosdottir
💎Edges Artwork by Ariel Waters @thebookishbox_artists
💎Front Endpapers Artwork by Ariel Waters @thebookishbox_artists
💎Character Endpapers Artwork by @knightfallart

Please note: Images are mockups and may change slightly in color and style in the final product.

This preorder is estimated to ship in January 2027. Please use our Shipping Updates Page for updates on this preorder as we near the estimated ship date.

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Rep & Promo Codes are not eligible for this pre-order box.