Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rose | 2020 | H.P. Mallory | Buy |
| 2 | Snow | 2022 | H.P. Mallory | Buy |
| 3 | Goldy | 2022 | H.P. Mallory | Buy |
| 4 | Aria | 2022 | H.P. Mallory | Buy |
| 5 | Briar | 2022 | H.P. Mallory | Buy |
| 6 | Tinker | 2022 | H.P. Mallory | Buy |
| 7 | Ember | 2022 | H.P. Mallory | Buy |
| 8 | Bowie | 2022 | H.P. Mallory | Buy |
| 9 | Belle | 2022 | H.P. Mallory | Buy |
| 10 | Blaze | 2023 | H.P. Mallory | Buy |
Happily Never After is H.P. Mallory’s take on fairy tale retellings, but stripped of the traditional happy endings and replaced with something darker and more complicated. Each book in the ten-book series takes a familiar story – Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty – and rebuilds it around a heroine who has to deal with supernatural threats, morally grey love interests, and consequences that the original tales conveniently skipped over.
The series began in 2020 with Rose and expanded rapidly through 2022 as H.P. Mallory released the bulk of the installments. By the time Blaze arrived in 2023, the series had covered a wide range of fairy tale source material, each book offering a self-contained story with a new protagonist and a different type of paranormal creature at the center of the romance.
Readers who enjoy fairy tale retellings with heat and edge rather than sweetness will find this series hits the mark. The books are quick reads, and since each stands alone, you can pick up whichever title whose premise appeals to you most without needing to start from the beginning.