Accomplice to the Villain
A Cozy Fantasy Romantic Comedy
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4.5 • 168 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES
Accolades:
Goodreads Choice Award finalist 2025: Readers’ Favorite Romantasy • Likewise Choice Award finalist • Spotify Best Romantasy Audiobooks of 2025 recommendation
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
Book #4 Adversary to the Villain
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Harboring a minor crush on an evil boss is quite the conundrum in this hilarious workplace fantasy with subtle rom-com undertones. In this third book in the Assistant and the Villain series, upbeat Evie and her taciturn boss, Trystan, are getting closer and closer to admitting their poorly hidden feelings for each other. But Trystan (who’s really only kinda bad) is swept up in his struggle to become the prince and deliver the Kingdom of Rennedawn from the true villainy of King Benedict. Hannah Nicole Maehrer is clearly having a blast mashing up the tropes of fantasy fiction and office culture, as ravens deliver messages about meetings and ice pixies take care of the AC. Meanwhile, the humor remains delightfully dry and witty. This book made us laugh out loud and swoon.
