Accomplice to the Villain (Assistant and the Villain, Bk. 3)

Accomplice to the Villain (Assistant and the Villain, Bk. 3)

by Maehrer, Hannah Nicole

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THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES
2025 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist for Best Romantasy

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.
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Topics and Key Themes

Narrative Tropes

  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Workplace Romance
  • Grumpy/Sunshine
  • Slow Burn
  • Forbidden Love

Key Themes

  • Prophecy unraveling the status quo — a magical threat forces Evie to question everything she thought she controlled.
  • Loyalty to a villain — choosing sides when your boss is the monster the kingdom fears.
  • Chaos as a career path — assassins, cursed frogs, and treason charges were not in the job description.
  • Feelings as the real danger — surviving the villain's world is easier than surviving feelings for the villain himself.
  • Identity beyond the plan — Evie's five-year future collapses, replaced by something wilder and entirely her own.

Who is this book for?

Spice Level: 3 / 5: Spicy

Things heat up — open-door scenes with some descriptive detail, balanced against the plot.

About the Author

Hannah Nicole Maehrer?or as TikTok knows her, @hannahnicolemae?is a fantasy romance author and BookToker with a propensity for villains. She grew up in Eastern Pennsylvania, watching Disney movies in her favorite rocking chair, where she spent hours imagining her own stories, creating entire worlds among the green walls of her living room. She kept her big dreams close as she went on to graduate with a bachelor’s in psychology from Pennsylvania State University. Until one day her aspirations carried her to a small app on her phone that made those big dreams a reality. After developing the viral Assistant to the Villain TikTok series into a book, Hannah watched that world she always dreamed of take form.