From international bestselling author, Emily McIntire, comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining ofThe Wizard of Oz. Et Tu, Brute?: When Cody reveals himself to be a federal agent working undercover as a way to get dirt on Eveline, she expresses these thoughts to him as he was about to arrest her. The Irish Mob: The Westerly family, with Farrell carrying pride in his Irish heritage as the leader, is basically this with their drug trade built on profit.

Yeah, starting to burn? That’s hydrofluoric acid for you. Do you want to know what it’s doing as it melts through your skin? It has fluoride ions that migrate through the body, destroying tissue until it lodges in your bones.” The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Eveline has always been at odds with Dorothy since childhood. Big Brother Worship: Gender-inverted. Eveline has loved and idolized her late older sister, Nessa, even after her death. You don’t have to trust me, Evelina. But words are your safe space, the same way that they’re mine.” My fingers thread through his hair. “Let me be your calm in the chaos, pretty girl.” Though they can't stand one another, something keeps bringing them together. Both come into conflicts as ugly truths come to the surface and the pair come to discover more in common than they believed.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. My Review First Impressions Eveline Westerly had lost her older sister, Nessa. What's more, she is part of her father's drug trade empire that distributes a powerful illegal drug called "the Flying Monkey". When new recruits are brought in, she can't shake the feeling something isn't right about them. The tension swirling around our bodies is overwhelming, and I don’t know what it is I’m feeling, only that nothing else has ever felt like it. Opening her eyes, she twists in my arms to look up at my face.”

The Mole: Nicholas goes undercover as a new recruit into the Westerly crime family on behalf of the DEA to gather intel on everyone involved. It gets complicated due to the time he spends with Eveline. Big Damn Heroes: Nicholas arrives in time to shoot Cody, preventing Eveline's arrest and allowing her to escape before the feds arrive.Wretched is dark contemporary romance novel written by Emily McIntire, published in 2022, based on L. Frank Baum's fairytale The Wizard of Oz. I’m curious to see what the next book in the series is going to be. I still think a Little Mermaid would be interesting, especially from a dark, fractured “re-telling” perspective. But that might be hard since I doubt there would be actual mermaids involved (these don’t involve magic or fantasy creatures, though that could always change), but it could be pirate-themed, which would be interesting. Have you read the Never After Series or any of these books? If so, what did you think? Parental Favoritism: Eveline's mother, Glinda, showed more affection for Dorothy than her other daughters in the past. From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of The Wizard of Oz.

Nicholas Woodsworth is an undercover agent with a hatred of criminals and an eye out for pretty ladies. When he enters the Westerly drug trade under a different name to undermine them, his path crosses with Eveline - who he had met once in a club before taking the job. Cowardly Lion: Zeke, whose only reason for being involved in illegal activities was because of his late father's time as a criminal and with Eveline's father. However, when Eveline was in danger of being killed by her father, he takes action and shoots Farrell dead.I also stream a variety of things over on Twitch with stream highlights and VODs posted on my YouTube Channel, and clips shared on my Clips YouTube Channel.