Wretched (Never After Series) by Emily McIntire

A dark, addictive reimagining that asks what happens when the “villain” is the woman you can’t stop wanting—and the man who wants her is the one sent to destroy her. Wretched is high-stakes, morally messy, and built on the kind of chemistry that feels like a bad decision… until it becomes the only one that makes sense.

Evelina Westerly has always been the bad guy. She’s the brains, brawn, and botanist behind her family’s drug empire—her father’s ruthless secret weapon. Between tending her greenhouse, hunting revenge for her sister’s murder, and putting a gun to the head of anyone who gets in her way, Evelina doesn’t do softness. She definitely doesn’t do love. A one-night stand with a gorgeous stranger at a nightclub is supposed to be nothing more than a release—until that same man shows up as the newest Westerly lackey… under a different name.

Because Nicholas Woodsworth is hiding something far more dangerous than an alias: he’s an undercover DEA agent, determined to burn the drug trade to the ground after it destroyed his family. When he realizes Evelina is the woman he’s been fantasizing about since that night, attraction wars with disgust. She’s everything he’s fighting against—and he’s been placed close enough to be her downfall. But the deeper they get, the more their darkness mirrors each other’s… and when hatred turns into something else, Nicholas has to choose what he’s willing to ruin: his mission, his morals, or the woman who might take him down with her.