It’s been a bit since The Ballad of Never After-how has it been seeing everyone’s reactions to it? I really wasn’t trying to break the hearts of readers, so much as I was trying to break a particular character, who I felt really needed to be broken. I had been writing toward that ending for a couple of years, ever since I first started working on Once Upon a Broken Heart. She doesn’t know what she has lost, and her husband is determined to make sure she never finds out.but first he must kill Jacks, the Prince of Hearts.īlood will be shed, hearts will be stolen, and true love will be put to the test in ‘ A Curse for True Love,’ the breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy.”īefore you run off and preorder the new book (or dive into the series again), you’re going to want to read Cosmo’s interview with Stephanie looking back on the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy, discussing what fans should expect, and exploring what’s next for our favorite characters.įirst, I have to say this for myself and other readers: Our hearts are breaking! How could you leave us with that ending?

But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price she’s paid for this fairytale. She’s married to a handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle. While Stephanie has been keeping the book a secret, her publisher Flatiron Books gave us a little bit of a hint about what to expect in the book’s official description: “Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after.Įvangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she has it. “But I can’t say more without spoiling things.” So yes, the tree is going to be a big deal. “I don’t want to spoil anything, so I am just going to cryptically say, ‘The tree.’ And yes, I’m talking about the tree that’s on the cover,” she said. In an exclusive interview below, author Stephanie Garber revealed the cover alludes to the biggest surprise she has for fans.

It matches the rest of the trilogy and features a mysterious red tree. The final book in the series, A Curse for True Love, will be released on September 12, 2023, and Cosmopolitan has the first big glimpse at the final book, including the book cover reveal. But at least there’s still one more book left before we officially say goodbye to Jacks, Evangeline, and the Magnificent North, and based on what went down in The Ballad of Never After, we’re counting down the days to see what happens next. And if we could take the stones from the Valory Arch back in time and relive the entire Once Upon a Broken Heart series, we definitely would.

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