Accomplice to the Villain

<p><b>THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES<br></b><br><b>Accolades: </b><br><b>Goodreads Choice Award finalist 2025: Readers’ Favorite Romantasy • Likewise Choice Award finalist • Spotify Best Romantasy Audiobooks of 2025 recommendation</b><br><br><b><i>Once Upon a Time</i> meets <i>The Office</i> in Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s laugh-out-loud viral TikTok series turned novel, about the sunshine assistant to an Evil Villain…and their unexpected romance.</b><br><br><b>REWARD OFFERED:</b> <i>Apprentice to The Villain wanted for treason (light), magical property damage (alleged), and one incident involving a weaponized scone (accurate). Frequently seen with a grumpy frog (crowned, judgmental). Answers to “Evie” or “Stop that.”</i><br><br>Evie Sage didn’t mean to become the right-hand woman to the kingdom’s most terrifying villain. One minute, she was applying for an entry-level position that promised “light paperwork and occasional beheadings,” and the next, she was knee-deep in magical mayhem, murder plots, and an entirely inappropriate crush on her brooding, sharp-jawed, walking disaster of a boss.<br><br>Now, with a magical prophecy unraveling, assassins showing up in the break room, and a suspicious amount of frogs wearing crowns, Evie has to figure out how to survive her job without setting the kingdom on fire—or her dignity, which is hanging by a very sarcastic thread.<br><br>Being evil-adjacent was never part of the five-year plan. But then again…neither was falling for The Villain.<br><br><i>A magical office comedy with grumpy bosses, snarky frogs, and definitely-not-feelings.</i><br><br>The Assistant and the Villain series is best enjoyed in order.<br>Reading Order:<br>Book #1 Assistant to the Villain<br>Book #2 Apprentice to the Villain<br>Book #3 Accomplice to the Villain<br>Book #4 Adversary to the Villain</p>