Never after

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Four tales of treacherous, tumultuous, passionate entanglements from today's most provocative authors.

The bonds of love. The bonds of matrimony. The bonds between husband and wife. Let's face it- some bonds are meant to be broken.

Here, for the first time ever, are four stories based on the classic idea of the "faerie tale wedding"—except this time, the damsels aren't the ones in distress.

New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton spins a story of a princess who decides to take her own destiny in hand and rescue a pampered Prince Charming from an evil sorceress in "Can He Bake a Cherry Pie?"

A selkie on the run from a century-old broken marriage arrangement has finally found true love—only to have the darkness from her past return to threaten both her and her dearly beloved in USA Today bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn's "The Shadow of Mist."

New York Times bestselling author Marjorie M. Liu tells the tale of a young princess who escapes betrothal to a warlord by entering a magical forest. But when an evil queen sends her on a quest to "The Tangleroot Palace" she faces dangers more perilous than marriage.

When a princess refuses her boring betrothed, the king holds a competition to see who will win his daughter's hand. But in matters of the heart, is a winner truly worthy—or can a loser offer even more in national bestselling author Sharon Shinn's "The Wrong Bridegroom."