Name: Wretched
ISBN: 9788985138062

Emily McIntire

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.

Never After Series, Book #3

Wretched

Jade 

“I don't love Evelina in spite of her flaws. I love her because of them.”

nanafark

“I don’t want to stalk you, pretty girl.” He tucks a strand of hair behind my ear. “I want to f*ck you.” 

“Just because you think something doesn’t make it true.”

“But it looks flawless.” She tilts her head.

“And real emeralds have flaws, sweetheart. Just like the rest of us.”

I laugh at his sarcasm and let him lead me to the booth, ignoring the way my 

 heart speeds when I look up and meet a pair of jade-green eyes.

[…] she’s under my skin; the energy wafting off her, even now, is heavy enough to make me teeter on the edge of sanity.

There’s never been anyone who’s affected me like this. It’s the reason I approached her at the club, and it’s definitely the reason why I f*cked her against the dirty bathroom tile while she screamed into my mouth.

She cranes her neck to meet my gaze, and I suck in a deep breath when she does. 

I thought at first that I missed the striking blue of her eyes from the night we met, but this close, the dark browns swirl with yellow and a dash of green creating a kaleidoscope of color so deep and f*cking beautiful they suck me in and drag me under like quicksand.

She hums, bringing up her fingers and smoothing them down the opening of my jacket. I stare at the movement, my hands clenching into fists to keep from reaching out and dragging her into me. To remind her just how much she 

She straightens, but she doesn’t say a word, just keeps watching me with those lethal f*cking eyes of hers.

 her to remember every second of our time, the same way it’s been burned into my brain ever since it happened.

My gaze trails along her figure, drinking her in like she’s water in the desert.

I’ve done my best to avoid her. I have no room for a distraction like her, and she f*cks with my head. Physically, I’ve never wanted to throw someone down and fill them with my c*ck more, but mentally, she fills 

 understand how someone can be so embroiled with putting drugs on the streets and sleep peacefully at night.

“You’re so uptight. I think you need to get f*cked again. How long has it been?” 

She doesn’t respond, but I don’t miss the way her knuckles whiten around the steering wheel.

Satisfaction teases my middle and I quirk a brow. “Was it 

“What other people think of me is none of my business.”

He makes a face, twisting toward me and lifting a brow. 

“That sounds like something someone says when they care too much.”

I don’t even know what I mean by that statement, which isn’t wholly shocking considering I can’t even figure out how the hell I feel. I f*cked this woman. I’m insanely attracted to her despite her being unhinged, but I can’t correlate the woman I pictured her as when we first met with who she is now. Because 

, she’s who I’m fighting against. She’s part of the problem I’m trying to fix.

She sucks in a sharp breath but doesn’t fight me, the man she claims to hate so much.

And that pisses me off even more, because I do hate her. I can’t f*cking 

 who this girl is. I would give anything to reach inside of her and pull out the woman I met that night at the club.

She’s the one I’m interested in, the one I’m dying to see.

“That depends,” he fires back. “If I make you a mess, will you rub my nose in it?”

She’s made it more than clear where we stand, and as much fun as it is to rile her up, keeping our distance is for the best. For both my sanity and my job. I can pretend I’m using her for information all I want, the truth is there’s something about her that drives me f*cking crazy.

Showing your enemies —even the ones you’re doing deals with— who’s important to you is a surefire way to give them ammunition against you later. 

Relationships are a weakness and when you play dangerous games, you have to be a fortress of strength.

“I think…” I say carefully. “The only love you can count on, is the way you love yourself.”

“Bricks are meant for paths,  Yet somehow we’re always still.  If there’s nothing for us in the now,  Then I know there never will.  You belong up here in the light,  and me, in poppies down below.  Maybe one day we’ll meet again,  On the other side of a rainbow.”

Meghan Morris

Love this series!! Twisted and great imaginative retelling, without being exactly the same 

Naomi Kemph

Decent for what it is. I needed mind-numbing and this delivered. 

Kierce

Katie Roberts

I have no justification, no explanation, and nothing to say for myself except that I had fun.

Ashlee

Got me in love with the never after series again loved it 

Valerie Yvonne Elizabeth Hes 

I honestly could not put this book down! I felt like the story flewww by and I could not get enough. I went into this book completely blind and was pleasantly surprised that the female main character was the morally grey one.. always a villain and you know what I'm here for it!

The fact that was not the only DEA agent on the case and there was already characters who had infiltrated the Westerly family, but until Nick came along no one knew it was Evelina. I was honestly shocked!

Also just a note here for the gun scene byeeee!!!!!!!!

🌞Laur🌞

I honestly could not put this book down! I felt like the story flewww by and I could not get enough. I went into this book completely blind and was pleasantly surprised that the female main character was the morally grey one.. always a villain and you know what I'm here for it!

The fact that was not the only DEA agent on the case and there was already characters who had infiltrated the Westerly family, but until Nick came along no one knew it was Evelina. I was honestly shocked!

Also just a note here for the gun scene byeeee!!!!!!!!

This was just as much fun as the other books. While the pacing of the book felt slower I still really liked it. The ending is what helped it get up to what I rated it. I really did enjoy that ending because I felt dumb not figuring that out😂

This was also the spiciest in the series so far and I’m excited to continue on with the series!

Priscilla Stanfield

This was just as much fun as the other books. While the pacing of the book felt slower I still really liked it. The ending is what helped it get up to what I rated it. I really did enjoy that ending because I felt dumb not figuring that out😂

This was also the spiciest in the series so far and I’m excited to continue on with the series!

I wish I could say I LOVED this book because I thought it started off SO strong and SPICY. The plot was THICK until it kind of just sizzled out and I was left wanting more information about other characters to have a more shocking end. It felt very predictable, but who doesn’t love a good dark contemporary romance with enemies to lovers trope! 

Valentina Moreno Escobar

This book was based a bit of the wonderful and wizard of oz but it’s from Dorothy’s sisters perspective and she makes drugs and her cottage where she makes them has a yellow brick road leading to them. But anyway the ending is happy I’m glad she forgave him.

Hana 

Hard to stay engaged in. Loved hooked though 

Katie Avila

𝙊𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙐𝙥𝙤𝙣 𝘼 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚,
there was a wicked girl.

She lost everything that mattered,

causing darkness to unfurl.

Impulsive and intelligent, 

she helped her family name grow strong.

But then one day a man without a heart came along.  

An undercover agent, meant to spy and bring back tips. 

Following down her hidden path of faded yellow bricks. 

She hated him, he wanted her; 

she was too good to be true. 

But a woman can be great...

𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙤.

💚 Forbidden
👠 Bad Girl/ Good Guy
💚 Grumpy/Sunshine
👠 Enemies with Benefits

Never After #3

marta 

Renata

pls- i love this series so fucking much 
i enjoyed every single second while reading evelinenicholas 
EVELINE IS A BADDIE I LOVE HER 

- “But when it comes to Eveline Westerly, I’m a fucking fool. ”

- “You don’t have to trust me, Eveline. But words are your safe space, the same way that they’re mine.”

- “But if I’m her calm, then she is my chaos, and if I can’t live with her forever, then I don’t want to live at all. ”

- “I’ll walk up to you and say I’m Nicholas Tennyson Woodsworth, my favorite color is blue, I hated school, and I am so fucking in love with you that I can’t imagine living in a world that doesn’t have you in it.”

- “Are you gonna tell me yours?” ”

- “I’m so fucking in love with you, Eveline Westerly,”
 “Every wretched piece?”
 “Every single one.”

After Scarred, I didn’t had much hope for this series but holly molly… I devoured this book! It was really, really good. And for once it’s female main character who is the bad one and not the male character. 

Anita

This was such a quick and amazing read. So far I am not dissapointed by the books in this serie

Emma Kamer

mariana

Review 

This was an unexpected book for me 
I was so nervous to continue the series 
That author conquer my heart everytime

Nouran Hazem

the chokehold this author has on me. these books are easy to read, the scenarios are unique in each one (although there's a common "avenging a family member death" that is in all of these), and they're the right amount of spice. 4.5/5

Taylor Arevalo

Nouran

🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 love love love. my heart went out to evie she deserves better 

grayson gruber

Loulou

Emily oh Emily you slayed so hard 
The little hints and references to the Wizard of Oz had me screaming and the spicy scenes were so so good.

at first, i didn't like it and i was just thinking about how much i liked scarred better...but holy lord did it get better. it was such a ride and i have to give props to emily because she really writes characters well in this series. its crazy how much you dislike the characters your not supposed to like from the beginning yet you don't even know why you don't like them. lowkey i was more into the politics and organizations than the romance TT but Nick and Eve were too cute also, the tension between the two and connecting through poetry in their broken worlds was just too good and i ate it all up.

Niyah<3

this book got me very emotional, so much i know i’ll finish the series and go back to my self-help pile 🥲.

i loved reading Nick’s POV and how he goes through his thoughts, feelings, and struggles. i also loved his attitude, his faith there’s something good about Eveline and his powerful personality, as well as how hot he is 🥵.

i didn’t like how long i had to endure Eveline's “badass” attitude toward him until almost the very end. i wish i’d read more genuine interactions with each other on her part. 

and of course, i liked the intense dynamic between them. 

i’d be lying if i’d say i didn’t expect the twist.

i wish a few things to go differently but if i were to read a different epilogue (a few years after of being together for example, like the two previous books), less of poetry and more of his and her words, and one last intimate moment between them, i think my heart would be bleeding a little less!

this book triggered for me a thrilling vibe with the undercover agent who’s falling for the wrong girl, lots of questions about what love and trauma are capable of, and loads of tears.

 : This would be my favourite, if it didn't get me so emotional and had given me the ending i wish to read.

Nick has to be my all time favourite (a tiny tiny bit more than Tristan) because i got very connected with his thoughts and his POV. i feel as if we got to see him express himself more and deeper compared to James and Julian. and maybe just a little more than Tristan. and i think that this made me so invested in him. this and that he is so hot indeed. his mouth was so sexy, yet less dirty than Tristan's but omg! 

this book got me very emotional, so much i know i’ll finish the series and go back to my self-help pile 🥲.

i loved reading Nick’s POV and how he goes through his thoughts, feelings, and struggles. i also loved his attitude, his faith there’s something good about Eveline and his powerful personality, as well as how hot he is 🥵.

i didn’t like how long i had to endure Eveline's “badass” attitude toward him until almost the very end. i wish i’d read more genuine interactions with each other on her part. 

and of course, i liked the intense dynamic between them. 

i’d be lying if i’d say i didn’t expect the twist.

i wish a few things to go differently but if i were to read a different epilogue (a few years after of being together for example, like the two previous books), less of poetry and more of his and her words, and one last intimate moment between them, i think my heart would be bleeding a little less!

this book triggered for me a thrilling vibe with the undercover agent who’s falling for the wrong girl, lots of questions about what love and trauma are capable of, and loads of tears.

all the stars go to the guy 😅

UPDATE : This would be my favourite, if it didn't get me so emotional and had given me the ending i wish to read.

Nick has to be my all time favourite (a tiny tiny bit more than Tristan) because i got very connected with his thoughts and his POV. i feel as if we got to see him express himself more and deeper compared to James and Julian. and maybe just a little more than Tristan. and i think that this made me so invested in him. this and that he is so hot indeed. his mouth was so sexy, yet less dirty than Tristan's but omg! 

i think that this book and Scarred are the most romantic and spicy of all.

Wretched Never After Series, Book #3