October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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Also by Hannah Nicole Maehrer:

Adversary to the Villain, August 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Assistant to the Villain, September 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Accomplice to the Villain, August 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Apprentice to the Villain, August 2024
Trade Size / e-Book / audiobook
Assistant to the Villain, September 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book

ACCOMPLICE TO THE VILLAIN
By: Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Assistant and the Villain #3
Red Tower Books
August 2025
On Sale: August 5, 2025
Featuring: Evie Sage
368 pages
ISBN: 1649378548
EAN: 9781649378545
Kindle: B0DL46ZJ76
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Romance Comedy | Romance Fantasy

A cursed love, a cursed frog and a “Wicked Woman”

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THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES

Once Upon a Time meets The Office 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.

REWARD OFFERED: 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.”

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.

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.

Being evil-adjacent was never part of the five-year plan. But then again…neither was falling for The Villain.

A magical office comedy with grumpy bosses, snarky frogs, and definitely-not-feelings.

The Assistant and the Villain series is best enjoyed in order.

Reading Order:

Book #1 Assistant to the Villain

Book #2 Apprentice to the Villain

Book #3 Accomplice to the Villain