Wretched (Never After Series)

From BookTok sensation 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.

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Published Apr 19, 2022

282 pages

Average rating: 7.14

209 RATINGS

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Zya The Book Dragon
Mar 05, 2025
6/10 stars
Felt like it took a while to finally get going. I liked the ending tho.
Lauren Greely
Jul 01, 2025
8/10 stars
3.5 ⭐️ 2.75 spice
imsonena
May 22, 2025
1/10 star
Deadly boredom
Angelique M Brown
Apr 03, 2025
6/10 stars
This was def twisted and different from what I normally read but good. The storyline was good and for sure there was major chemistry between Nick and Eveline. Dorothy was a nice twist and the yellow brick road through out the book was cool as well...took me a bit to connect the dots, loved that when I got the ah ha moment. If you like twisted filthy romance with some major kick ass violents and twisted mean streak, this is def the book for you, it had it in spades. The poetry, wish I could understand and get it if I did this would have been another added touch to this story. Dont get me wrong, I did like it, its just not the romance story for me.
Courtasaurus Rex
Mar 22, 2025
8/10 stars
This was my favorite in the series so far. I enjoyed the story and it felt more complete.

It’s not very often we get a female morally grey character, so that drove my interest in this book and it was done well.

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