Accomplice to the Villain summary - Full recap with spoilers

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Author
Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Ratings
4.1 stars on Amazon
4.4 stars on Goodreads
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Assistant to the Villain Series:
#1 Assistant to the Villain (recap)
#2 Apprentice to the Villain (recap)
#3 Accomplice to the Villain (this page)
#4 Adversary to the Villain (synopsis)

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What happened in Accomplice to the Villain?

Your Accomplice to the Villain summary:

Trystan tries to stay away from Evie after hearing the destiny monster’s tragic revelation – Evie Sage was meant to be his downfall and he her undoing. Every time they’re together, his magic is out of control.

King Benedict visits Trystan. The king’s men take the female guvre away during battle. The group continues searching for the fourth item in the prophecy to save Rennedawn’s dwindling magic.

Evie catches a man she thought had come to fix the manor, trying to dismantle her favorite stained-glass kitchen window. He turns out to be Calvin, Otto Warson’s son. He was Evie’s previous employer, and she had beheaded him. While fixing one of the other windows, the worker reveals to the Villain that words are inscribed on the tile and are visible only when the sun hits it head-on. The Villain captures Calvin, but he refuses to reveal anything.

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Strange things keep happening around the manor. The chef is found injured and tied up. Someone slipped Lyssa a note to release her father, and someone had let Calvin in.

Trystan and Evie take apart the window carefully and place it in the sunlight to read the prophecy. While waiting for sunrise, they kiss. This sets Trystan’s magic off, creating havoc. He orders Evie to stay away. Rennedawn’s story reveals itself. They have the Starlight magic, the guvre’s youngling, the unmasked villain, and all they needed was the heart of a true prince saving his fated love. That meant Alexander Kingsley was the fourth piece.

Alexander, the prince of the southern kingdom (now a frog) and their best friend, has episodes zoning in and out, forgetting who he really is. Trystan is concerned and takes him to Tattiana to be fixed. But she’s unable to. He is afraid they’re running out of time and need to turn Kingsley back into a human quickly to fulfill the prophecy.

Trystan had looked for the Enchantress who cursed him for ten years but couldn’t find her. He decides to visit Lionel, a Curse Consultant. Lionel reveals that Trystan is cursed too. Trystan tells Evie that King Benedict put a curse on him years ago. They run away when they spot the king coming.

Back at the Manor, Becky invites her brother, Roland, to take a look at the thorn fence to inspect how Calvin entered. He finds a gap and says it’s been tampered with for a long time. The staff find a memory plant – the same one used to suppress Nura and Becky’s magic by Becky’s mother. Feeling betrayed, she orders Roland to be taken to the cells. Becky confesses that she’s in love with Blade. A petal falls from the flower, releasing strong starlight magic. Blade is hurt and falls unconscious after confessing his feelings for Becky.

Keeley plans to rescue the captured guvre from King Benedict’s castle while the others head to retrieve a magic wand to help them enter the southern kingdom. Gideon follows Keeley to the palace to save the guvre. He likes Keeley but senses that she’s hiding something. He confronts her with letters he found. She tells him they’re not from the king but from her father, who abandoned her as a child. The female guvre breaks free from her cage. Gideon and Keeley let it fly away. Gideon questions Keeley about the Villain’s orders. She tells him she got them through Marv, the doorman and second-in-command. Gideon realizes he’s the one who’s been sending notes to Lyssa to release their father and let intruders in. He and Keeley kiss.

The group visits Lord Fowler, the Villain’s old friend. He agrees to trade the magic wand if the group attends his party. The Villain and Evie kiss again, but Evie tells Trystan to find her when he can claim her without hesitation. Tattiana, Clare, and Alexander find a library with Lord Fowler’s rarest collections. Among them, they spot the wand. They escape the library and end up in a room where Trystan and Evie are sleeping. Lord Fowler catches them leaving and says the wand broke a long time ago. Half he kept, half he turned into a pair of slippers and gifted them to Trystan’s mother – Amara. Both parts are needed for the magic to work.

Trystan reaches out to Tattianna’s father, Jellyfish Jones, to take them to his home, Benevolent Village, by sea. On board, Trystan calls Evie his accomplice. She’s pleased with the promotion.

Becky gets in touch with Trystan and informs him about Blade’s condition. She wishes he hadn’t sent Keeley and the Malovelent Guard to the palace. Trystan tells her it wasn’t his order. Lyssa and Becky face the male guvre when he tries to escape. They get on its back and are transported somewhere with a huge nest and eggs that haven’t hatched. Blade rescues them with Fluffy and takes them back to the manor.

How did Accomplice to the Villain end? Accomplice to the Villain summary

When the group docks, they are greeted by Arthur, Trystan’s father. He takes them home. Amara agrees to hand over the magical slippers and her housemaid Winnifred to enter the southern kingdom where the enchantress, who is also Winnifred’s mother, is held captive by Alexander’s parents. Alexander’s parents don’t believe the story and turn the enchantress into stone. Amara walks in, helping capture Trystan and Evie for King Benedict. Arthur dies protecting Evie and reveals that Trystan is not his blood. Blade comes to their rescue with Fluffy. By now, Alexander is a regular frog.

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When Gideon and Keeley reach the manor, they see office workers’ heads strung up and the Valiant Guards inside. Keeley fights while Gideon looks for his mother. His father, Griffin, has her tied up and uses the plant to consume what’s left of her starlight magic. He takes the plant and flees.

The group returns to the manor where King Benedict uses the plant to transfer Trystan’s magic to Evie. Trystan is Amara and Benedict’s illegitimate son. When the magical specialist found what Evie was at birth, her parents, the King’s friends, begged to free her of it. So, the King had the magic siphoned and gave it to Trystan, the son he always wanted. That made Trystan the heart of the true prince and Evie the villain. King Benedict escapes. Trystan promises Evie they’ll save the kingdom. Alexander returns to his human form.

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