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From USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire comes the captivating final installment in the enthralling Never After series, a dark and seductive fractured fairy tale.

Enzo “Loverboy” Marino rules two worlds. By day, he’s a wealthy businessman; by night, he’s a powerful underboss in an infamous mafia family, his father the fiercest mobster in the Northeast. He lives by duty, answers to no one but his father, and when he’s ordered to marry, he accepts without hesitation—until he meets someone he didn’t expect.

Venesa Andersen has always known she’s not good enough—not in her parents’ eyes nor in the eyes of her gangster uncle who took her in after their deaths. Hardened and shrewd, she is stunningly beautiful and completely obedient to her uncle’s demands. Morality is a luxury Venesa can’t afford, and that’s never been a problem—until now. When her elusive cousin returns home, bringing a dangerously alluring man along, Venesa discovers he’s the first person who has ever truly understood her.

But there’s one glaring complication: he’s engaged to her cousin.

From the moment Enzo encounters Venesa, he’s caught. She awakens desires he never knew existed, with her hypnotic voice and irresistible beauty. Yet he’s spent his life learning that men like him can’t afford to want, that duty always takes precedence over passion. As temptation strengthens and alliances begin to crumble, both Venesa and Enzo are forced into an impossible choice: stay loyal to their families and the rules they’ve lived by—or lose everything for a love that was never meant to happen.