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Charming 2: Happily Never After: The new Danny Charming Urban Fantasy from the New York Times #1 Bestseller
"Tony Lee is one of the best story-tellers working today" -- Michael Moorcock
Sometimes getting what you always wanted is the worst thing that could happen to you.
After the events of Last Prince Standing, Danny Charming, the last of his line and current wielder of the title "Prince" Charming thought he'd finally got the hang of not dying horribly.
He was wrong. Spectacularly wrong.
When Danny's "simple" artifact recovery mission goes sideways - thanks to a possessed Victorian lamp that grants wishes with typically malicious Faerie tale logic - he discovers that some genies are better left in their bottles. Especially when they decide to "help" by showing Danny exactly what his life could have been like.
What if he'd never been born? What if Henry had lived? What if Danny had been the chosen firstborn Prince Charming from the start instead of the disappointing spare?
Suddenly Danny's bouncing between alternate versions of London where everything he thought he knew is wrong. In one world, he doesn't exist and Queen Mab rules through endless winter. In another, Henry's alive but broken, carrying scars from battles Danny never had to fight. And in a third, Danny's the perfect Prince Charming he always felt he should be—which turns out to be absolutely terrifying.
The problem? The lamp's magic is unraveling reality, and Danny has to choose which world gets to be real. But every choice damns someone he cares about. Save Henry and watch Queen Mab freeze London solid. Save London and condemn his brother to a living hell. Be the perfect Prince and lose everything that makes him... him.
With Lady Fenrys questioning her centuries-old loyalty, Detective Inspector Thorne getting dangerously close to the truth, and Nutter Blacktooth offering increasingly creative death threats as "motivational aids," Danny has to figure out how to save multiple versions of reality while dodging assassins who definitely don't care which world they're killing him in.
Some wishes come true. That's when your real problems begin.
The second book in the addictive Charming series, Happily Never After is perfect for fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London, and anyone who's ever wondered if the grass really is greener when it's been magically enhanced by vindictive supernatural forces.
If you enjoyed the fantastical tales of these authors, you won't be able to put down Happily Never After. PICK IT UP NOW before the price changes!
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What people are saying about Tony
"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I read this in two days. New author for me, but this won't be the last of his books I'll read!"
"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I don’t read fantasy, but durn, Mr. Lee may have converted me…at least to HIS fantasy books."
"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well-written, engaging and very cinematic; not surprising when you consider that the author is a comics writer at the top of his field."
"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unputdownable with a lot of twists in the tale."
"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Outstanding.
Sometimes getting what you always wanted is the worst thing that could happen to you.
After the events of Last Prince Standing, Danny Charming, the last of his line and current wielder of the title "Prince" Charming thought he'd finally got the hang of not dying horribly.
He was wrong. Spectacularly wrong.
When Danny's "simple" artifact recovery mission goes sideways - thanks to a possessed Victorian lamp that grants wishes with typically malicious Faerie tale logic - he discovers that some genies are better left in their bottles. Especially when they decide to "help" by showing Danny exactly what his life could have been like.
What if he'd never been born? What if Henry had lived? What if Danny had been the chosen firstborn Prince Charming from the start instead of the disappointing spare?
Suddenly Danny's bouncing between alternate versions of London where everything he thought he knew is wrong. In one world, he doesn't exist and Queen Mab rules through endless winter. In another, Henry's alive but broken, carrying scars from battles Danny never had to fight. And in a third, Danny's the perfect Prince Charming he always felt he should be—which turns out to be absolutely terrifying.
The problem? The lamp's magic is unraveling reality, and Danny has to choose which world gets to be real. But every choice damns someone he cares about. Save Henry and watch Queen Mab freeze London solid. Save London and condemn his brother to a living hell. Be the perfect Prince and lose everything that makes him... him.
With Lady Fenrys questioning her centuries-old loyalty, Detective Inspector Thorne getting dangerously close to the truth, and Nutter Blacktooth offering increasingly creative death threats as "motivational aids," Danny has to figure out how to save multiple versions of reality while dodging assassins who definitely don't care which world they're killing him in.
Some wishes come true. That's when your real problems begin.
The second book in the addictive Charming series, Happily Never After is perfect for fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London, and anyone who's ever wondered if the grass really is greener when it's been magically enhanced by vindictive supernatural forces.
If you enjoyed the fantastical tales of these authors, you won't be able to put down Happily Never After. PICK IT UP NOW before the price changes!
-------
What people are saying about Tony
"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I read this in two days. New author for me, but this won't be the last of his books I'll read!"
"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I don’t read fantasy, but durn, Mr. Lee may have converted me…at least to HIS fantasy books."
"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well-written, engaging and very cinematic; not surprising when you consider that the author is a comics writer at the top of his field."
"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unputdownable with a lot of twists in the tale."
"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Outstanding.
431 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 25, 2026
About the author
Tony Lee
551 books48 followersA New York Times Best-selling Graphic Novelist, Tony Lee was born in West London, UK in 1970. Informed by a teacher that he had a comic book style of writing, (a comment meant more as an insult), Tony decided that one day he would write for comics.
Tony has written for a variety of mediums including Radio 4, The BBC, commerical television in both the UK and US, magazines and both local and national newspapers. He has also written several award winning local radio campaigns. In 1991 he wrote for a small press comics publisher, of which only one project, The Cost of Miracles in Comic Speculator News was ever printed, and remains his first printed commercial comic work.
Moving away from comics, he went back into trade journalism and media marketing/creation. His small press magazine Burnt Offerings was a minor seller on both sides of the Atlantic, and was the first esoteric magazine to interview mainstream creators like Terry Pratchett and Pat Mills.
Since returning to comics in 2002, he has written for a variety of publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics/Zuda, Games Workshop, Panini Comics, Titan Publishing, AAM/Markosia Enterprises, Rebellion/2000ad and IDW Publishing amongst others, writing a variety of creator owned titles and licenses that include X-Men, Spider Man, Doctor Who, Starship Troopers, Wallace & Gromit and Shrek.
He is the writer of the ongoing Doctor Who series of comics from IDW, beginning in July 2009, and his award nominated, creator-owned miniseries Hope Falls was collected by AAM/Markosia in May 2009. His next book with them, From The Pages Of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula': Harker, was released in November 2009 to critical acclaim.
Added to this, Tony adapted Pride & Prejudice & Zombies into a graphic novel for Del Rey Publishing, with art by Cliff Richards - this was a New York Times #1 Bestselling Paperback Graphic Novel for May 2010 - he is also adapting Anthony Horowitz's Power of Five series into graphic format for Walker Books, the first - Raven's Gate is due out in late 2010, and he has adapted four Horowitz Horror books with Dan Boultwood for Hachette Children's Books.
His other book with Walker Books, Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood (drawn by Sam Hart) was released in 2009 and has already been awarded a Junior Library Guild: Fall 2009 Selection, and 'best for 2010' awards from both the American Library Association and the New York Public Library in the USA, among others. In March 2010 it was announced that it was also a finalist for the Children's Choice Book Awards. The next in the 'Heroes & Heroines' series, Excalibur: The Legend Of King Arthur by Tony Lee & Sam Hart is scheduled for March 2011.
Outside of comics he is writing several books for children.
Tony is represented by Julian Friedmann of the Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency.
Tony is also an accomplished Bard and performer, and has held the High Bard chair of the East Sussex Broomstick Rally on several occasions. His lecture Creating Gods for fun and Profit and his series of lectures on Bards and Ritual Magic were received to critical acclaim, and he still lectures occasionally in London, the Midlands and Sussex. As a Covent Garden Street Performer in the 90's, he performed 'The Scarlet Blade' Street Theatre show at the Edinburgh Festival and at locations across the UK, convincing members of the public to act out an insane pantomime for his amusement.
Added to this Tony is an accomplished storyteller and lecturer on writing, and has performed at libraries, events and schools around the world including the 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival, a 2009 tour of India for the British Council, and in 2003 around the Wadi Rum bedouin campfire in Jordan.
Tony currently lives in London with his fiancée, Tracy.
from: http://www.tonylee.co.uk
Tony has written for a variety of mediums including Radio 4, The BBC, commerical television in both the UK and US, magazines and both local and national newspapers. He has also written several award winning local radio campaigns. In 1991 he wrote for a small press comics publisher, of which only one project, The Cost of Miracles in Comic Speculator News was ever printed, and remains his first printed commercial comic work.
Moving away from comics, he went back into trade journalism and media marketing/creation. His small press magazine Burnt Offerings was a minor seller on both sides of the Atlantic, and was the first esoteric magazine to interview mainstream creators like Terry Pratchett and Pat Mills.
Since returning to comics in 2002, he has written for a variety of publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics/Zuda, Games Workshop, Panini Comics, Titan Publishing, AAM/Markosia Enterprises, Rebellion/2000ad and IDW Publishing amongst others, writing a variety of creator owned titles and licenses that include X-Men, Spider Man, Doctor Who, Starship Troopers, Wallace & Gromit and Shrek.
He is the writer of the ongoing Doctor Who series of comics from IDW, beginning in July 2009, and his award nominated, creator-owned miniseries Hope Falls was collected by AAM/Markosia in May 2009. His next book with them, From The Pages Of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula': Harker, was released in November 2009 to critical acclaim.
Added to this, Tony adapted Pride & Prejudice & Zombies into a graphic novel for Del Rey Publishing, with art by Cliff Richards - this was a New York Times #1 Bestselling Paperback Graphic Novel for May 2010 - he is also adapting Anthony Horowitz's Power of Five series into graphic format for Walker Books, the first - Raven's Gate is due out in late 2010, and he has adapted four Horowitz Horror books with Dan Boultwood for Hachette Children's Books.
His other book with Walker Books, Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood (drawn by Sam Hart) was released in 2009 and has already been awarded a Junior Library Guild: Fall 2009 Selection, and 'best for 2010' awards from both the American Library Association and the New York Public Library in the USA, among others. In March 2010 it was announced that it was also a finalist for the Children's Choice Book Awards. The next in the 'Heroes & Heroines' series, Excalibur: The Legend Of King Arthur by Tony Lee & Sam Hart is scheduled for March 2011.
Outside of comics he is writing several books for children.
Tony is represented by Julian Friedmann of the Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency.
Tony is also an accomplished Bard and performer, and has held the High Bard chair of the East Sussex Broomstick Rally on several occasions. His lecture Creating Gods for fun and Profit and his series of lectures on Bards and Ritual Magic were received to critical acclaim, and he still lectures occasionally in London, the Midlands and Sussex. As a Covent Garden Street Performer in the 90's, he performed 'The Scarlet Blade' Street Theatre show at the Edinburgh Festival and at locations across the UK, convincing members of the public to act out an insane pantomime for his amusement.
Added to this Tony is an accomplished storyteller and lecturer on writing, and has performed at libraries, events and schools around the world including the 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival, a 2009 tour of India for the British Council, and in 2003 around the Wadi Rum bedouin campfire in Jordan.
Tony currently lives in London with his fiancée, Tracy.
from: http://www.tonylee.co.uk
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