Synopsis
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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Review
Wretched is the latest book in the Never After series, and I absolutely loved it!
In Wretched, we get a take on the Wizard of Oz, where Eveline is helping her mafia boss father with his drug trade. She feels alone, and her dad and her sister Dorothy treat her like she’s nothing. Eveline is not a good person, but her past makes it understandable. The only person who loved her was killed, and she is left trying to make her family finally see her.
Nick is a cocky cop meant to bring Eveline’s family down. Even though Nick was supposed to be the “good” guy, I liked Eveline a lot more throughout most of the book. Though Nick had his moments, the banter between him and Eveline was terrific! I loved their chemistry, and it was easy to root for them. And the steam in this book was top-notch!
The story was interesting. It had a lot of twists and turns, and I loved the intrigue. While I usually love a morally grey male character, the female morally grey we get in Wretched is fantastic! I loved this book and can’t wait to see what Emily comes up with next.
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