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Wicked Villains · Book 1

Desperate Measures

by Katee Robert
Published
28 May 2019
Pages
228
ISBN-13
9781951329389
Type
novel
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About this book

Desperate Measures launches Katee Robert's Wicked Villains in Carver City on May 28, 2019, pairing a reimagined Jafar with a partner navigating kink, power exchange, and consent-forward BDSM dynamics for the first time. It runs 228 pages and set the template Robert would later scale up into Dark Olympus.

Key facts about Desperate Measures

Katee Robert wrote Desperate Measures, a novel on our list. It has been out since 28 May 2019. The book has 228 pages.

We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781951329389 to find the main one.

Desperate Measures is book 1 of 7 in the Wicked Villains series. The series has 7 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Queen Takes Rose is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 10 November 2020.

Additionally, Katee Robert writes Come Undone, The O'Malleys and Foolproof Love, plus 11 more series. Those series sit on our contemporary romance, mafia romance and romantic suspense shelves. Meanwhile, The Tarot Trials is the latest published Katee Robert book on file, from 20 October 2026.

About Katee Robert

Katee Robert is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of speculative romance, known for stories that pair mythology, fairy tale, or fantasy premises with unapologetically explicit heat. See every Katee Robert book in order.

Its place in Wicked Villains

Desperate Measures is book 1 in the Wicked Villains series. It is followed by Learn My Lesson. See the full Wicked Villains reading order.

Wicked Villains is Katee Robert's first big dark-romance hit, and the template she'd later scale up into Dark Olympus: take familiar fairy-tale and Disney-adjacent archetypes, strip away the moralizing, and hand the story to the "villain" instead of the hero. Set in the fictional Carver City, each standalone-but-interconnected book pairs a reimagined antagonist — Jafar, Captain Hook, the Beast, the Sea Witch, the Red Queen — with a partner navigating kink, power exchange, and consent-forward BDSM dynamics for the…

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