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Hexed

by Emily McIntire

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️steamy·spoiler·Never After #6

Why Read This?

A villain FMC who owns her darkness paired with a mafia prince who falls first — 300 pages of slow-burn tension that explodes. The Little Mermaid retelling is creative and the series finale sticks the landing with an exceptional epilogue.

Synopsis

He's the prince of La Cosa Nostra. She's the witch who steals his heart. 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.

At a Glance

4.17 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️steamy
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingslow burn

Top Tropes

dark romancemafia romancefairytale retelling

Mood

darkintenseseductivedangerousgothic

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

4.17 ★

Page Count

544 pages

Published

2024

Primary Genre

Dark Romance

Pairing

M/F

POV

Dual POV

Romance Pacing

Slow Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Standard

Narrator

Madeleine Dauer|Erik Bloomquist

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
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Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Characters

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Spice Details 🌶️

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domestic violencesexual assault (referenced)graphic violencegun violencetorturemurderviolencedeath of loved onedrug usetoxic relationshipscheatingstalking

World & Setting

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Reading Context

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