After Ever After (The Epilogue Chronicles Book 1)

Happily Ever After lasts exactly three years, two months, and one very unfortunate incident involving a cursed chandelier.

When Princess Auriella's prince dies in the most absurd accident in royal history, she expects grief, scandal, and perhaps a little freedom. What she gets instead is the Maiden Quest—an ancient, magically enforced tradition that essentially drags eligible princesses back into the matchmaking machine whether they like it or not. The kingdom's sacred narrative demands a new True Love, and the narrative always gets what it wants.

Except Auriella is done playing by the rules.

Venturing beyond the gilded borders of her own fairy tale, she stumbles into the messy, surreal truth lurking beneath every happily ever after—and straight into the orbit of someone she was absolutely, categorically raised to despise. He's roguish, infuriating, and suspiciously knowledgeable about the very magic that's been pulling her strings her entire life. He's also, against every reasonable instinct she possesses, exactly the kind of trouble she can't stop thinking about.

Part subversive romantasy, part romantic comedy with genuine teeth, After Ever After gleefully dismantles every princess fantasy you've ever loved. Auriella's journey isn't about finding the love the story chose for her—it's about burning the script entirely and discovering what, and who, she actually wants when nobody's watching.

The real fairy tale? It was never the one