Accomplice to the Villain: Assistant and the Villain, Book 3
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Goodreads Choice Award finalist 2025: Readers’ Favorite Romantasy • Likewise Choice Award finalist • Spotify Best Romantasy Audiobooks of 2025 recommendation
Once Upon a Time meets The Office in Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s laugh-out-loud viral TikTok series turned novel, about the sunshine assistant to an Evil Villain…and their unexpected romance.
REWARD OFFERED: Apprentice to The Villain wanted for treason (light), magical property damage (alleged), and one incident involving a weaponized scone (accurate). Frequently seen with a grumpy frog (crowned, judgmental). Answers to “Evie” or “Stop that.”
Evie Sage didn’t mean to become the right-hand woman to the kingdom’s most terrifying villain. One minute, she was applying for an entry-level position that promised “light paperwork and occasional beheadings,” and the next, she was knee-deep in magical mayhem, murder plots, and an entirely inappropriate crush on her brooding, sharp-jawed, walking disaster of a boss.
Now, with a magical prophecy unraveling, assassins showing up in the break room, and a suspicious amount of frogs wearing crowns, Evie has to figure out how to survive her job without setting the kingdom on fire—or her dignity, which is hanging by a very sarcastic thread.
Being evil-adjacent was never part of the five-year plan. But then again…neither was falling for The Villain.
A magical office comedy with grumpy bosses, snarky frogs, and definitely-not-feelings.
The Assistant and the Villain series is best enjoyed in order.
Reading Order:
Book #1 Assistant to the Villain
Book #2 Apprentice to the Villain
Book #3 Accomplice to the Villain
Book #4 Adversary to the Villain
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Community Reviews
So it pains me to say this was my least favorite in the series. I was under the impression this one be the last book, unfortunately it’s not.
The plot is dragging, the cutesy silly characters aren’t enough to save it for me.
It was hard to finish.
I love the relationship between evie and the villain. They’re both so opposite and they love to bicker, it’s cute it’s funny but three books in and we’re still yearning and bantering???? Like cmon guys.
I didn’t hate it but I had higher hopes for it.
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