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Ever Zabell

Ever writes subversive romances with twists. Her stories come from a place of rage and hope. All of Ever’s books have spice with purpose. AI is never used in her writing.She is a romance reader, a couples therapist, a farmer, a wife of a librarian, and a mom of four.She lives with her family in the PNW in a 120+ year old farmhouse. Homesteading, we grow food, medicinal herbs, flowers for dried flower arrangements, raise cows, bees, and chickens. Our sweet 120-pound Newfoundland looks like a bear and wants to eat the chickens.

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In the End Series

The In the End series is a romantic contemporary speculative fiction series that features page-turning plots, twists, and subversions of tropes. Raw and healing, these books lead the reader through darkness to hope.Each can be read as a standalone, yet they are interconnected, with each book building towards a larger story arc. The author recommends reading the books in order.
Seriously, some twists go down that you don’t want to spoil.

• Love In the End
• Home In the End
• Us In the End
• Fated In the End

Book 1

Love in the End

The nanny Harrison hired has his heart and a secret that will annihilate his world.Love in the End turns the tables on the nanny, rich widower trope. Hazel saves Harrison from a mugging with her bare fists. Harrison finds there are challenges in hiring this sexy, age-appropriate nanny who hits men for fun, hides rifles in her truck, and carries a forged driver’s license…but finding childcare is hard.Hazel brings homesteading to the mansion while urging Harrison to view his children and their needs in a new way. Her green eyes blaze as she challenges Harrison’s boss to a marksmanship contest and opens Harrison up to new sexual fantasies. Fantasies that shouldn’t become reality because Hazel is his employee, and Harrison is uncertain how much of his life he wants her to transform. Yet with her, he learns his heart can hold both grief and love simultaneously. Their relationship pushes Harrison to strip away his privilege layer by layer, preparing him for what love in the end means.If only she would share her tantalizing secrets. She gives Harrison disjointed clues until his world tilts off its axis, and all that makes sense is Hazel.Status: Line Editing Complete

BOOK 2

Home in the End

In a town gripped by a hate cult, will midwife Lydia’s forbidden romance with Banquo kill them or free them?After her girlfriend breaks up with her, Lydia starts her first job as a midwife at a rural Washington clinic. Hope freezes as she learns the town is unofficially run by the Blood Wills, a dangerous hate cult. Lydia knows she should leave, but without family or money, she gives in to the pull to help the disempowered women of the town. Her mission, along with her dark hair and eyes, makes her a target. Banquo, a handsome homesteader, acts as a guardian to the clinic along with the women and children who seek its care.Banquo offers Lydia a safe haven on his farm with his family. While assisting births and rediscovering the love of laboring in the land, Lydia's attraction to Banquo builds. On the homestead, this huge, muscular man listens, sees, and respects her like no other. She learns the town’s ‘good guy’ is trying to redeem his soul from the hate that tattooed him.When his shocking dark truth is revealed, their secret love seems doomed. The flames of danger threaten to engulf them when the clinic is saved from a firebombing by a mysterious woman named Hazel, who has unexpected connections to their past and their future.Against the odds, can the couple find a home in each other as the town and possibly the world burns?Status: Line Editing Complete

Book 3

Us in the End

Bryn believes her amateur witchcraft made Nolan love her, but the price is blood.A dual point-of-view love story about overcoming high-stakes odds to build love and family. After a failure, Nolan comes back to North Pass, a town in the grips of a cult. Within the cult, he is a prince, but Nolan is also a prisoner with his mother and brother while he tries to do good in an impossible situation.Bryn, with her turned eye and predominant birthmark, has lived as the town freak all of her life. Nolan asking her out makes Bryn’s dreams and her amateur witchcraft come true. When the best weeks of her life result in a pregnancy, Bryn hopes safety and acceptance will follow. However, the town offers the opposite.Together, they must overcome danger, postpartum depression, and time-bending truths to escape North Pass, even if it means leaving with a dead body in the car trunk on top of 1980’s prom dresses.Status: Line Editing Complete

Book 3.5

Dead in the End (Novella)

Taking a break from their separate love stories, Nolan and Hazel have a pervert to kill.It’s the weekend before Valentine’s Day, and Nolan is trying to find the lavender candy a pregnant Bryn is craving. Meanwhile, Hazel is struggling to find the word for Harrison’s Valentine’s card. So, the two go off to kill a man who deserves killing, only it gets complicated as they encounter a ghost from their past.Status: Outline

Book 4

Fated in the End

A fated romance between two of the younger generation reveals long-held secrets and pushes another couple toward healing and love.A dual point-of-view novel with two love stories, one young couple and one middle-aged couple. Fifteen years after the previous three novels end, the closed community on the hill has experienced sustainable success, but also its share of tragedy. The faded romance of two of the younger generation means a long-held secret will come to pass. Hazel, who has held bitter truths, finds them slipping free.Healing can sometimes hurt more than bruises.Sometimes happily ever after looks different.Status: Outline