Once Upon a Contract: From Chaos and Madness - Paperback

by Desiree F. Anfang (Author)

They issued Pierce Charming's death certificate on a Thursday.

April printed it, locked her office door, and started a war.

Fifteen years earlier, the universe watched Fairy Godmother Inc. fall and called it justice. Pierce-the man who could walk into a ruined world and stitch fate back together with a hemline and a smirk-was marched off to a barren planet and erased. Vincent took the titles, the designs, the building. He filled the halls with bots and a perfect success rate no living soul should be able to fake.

He left April.

The beige girl. The orphan in outdated glasses. The accountant who apologizes to filing cabinets. The last person anyone expected to keep loving a dead traitor.

That was the mistake.

April has spent half her life gathering the proof that Vincent cheated Fate itself: skip the love match, kill the villain, stamp the file complete. Worlds do not survive that kind of lie. Neither will he, if she lives long enough to put the receipts on the table.

But first, she has to find the man she has worshipped since she could talk-knowing fifteen years on a killing world may only give her pieces. A colder smile. A voice that says forget you ever knew me.

April is going anyway.

Because if Pierce is gone, Vincent wins. And if Pierce is still breathing, the girl nobody looked at twice may be the only one reckless enough to bring the king home.