Evangeline finds the hidden door to Jacks's church and meets the Prince of Hearts for the first time.

Jacks agrees to stop Luc's wedding in exchange for Evangeline kissing three people of his choosing.

Evangeline drinks poison to free the stone statues of her family and wedding guests, turning herself to stone.

Evangeline returns to flesh and learns the Fates have escaped from their card prison and wreaked havoc on the land.

The empress and Princess Donatella invite Evangeline to represent them at Nocte Neverending in the Magnificent North.

Evangeline and Marisol arrive in the Magnificent North and make their way toward the crown prince's palace.

Jacks enchants Evangeline's lips with his blood and orders her to kiss Prince Apollo before the party ends or die.

Evangeline kisses Prince Apollo at the outdoor party, and he stares hungrily after her as Jacks pulls her away.

Prince Apollo proposes marriage to Evangeline at the first night of Nocte Neverending, and she accepts.

Jacks uses Evangeline's second kiss on a matriarch, who then recites the Valory Arch prophecy describing Evangeline.

Evangeline and Prince Apollo are married in a lavish ceremony at the palace.

Evangeline uses the third kiss on Apollo in the wedding suite, and he collapses and appears dead.

Palace guards accuse Evangeline of murdering Apollo; Jacks bewitches them and smuggles her out of the palace.

Luc appears as a changeling in Chaos's lair, and Jacks shoves Evangeline aside to take Luc's vampire bite.

Tiberius, under the truth potion's influence, confesses before the assembled guards that he murdered his brother Apollo.

Evangeline Fox strikes a desperate bargain with Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, to stop the wedding of her first love Luc to her stepsister Marisol, a deal that costs her weeks of her life turned to stone. Her sacrifice makes her a hero, and an invitation from the new empress sends her north to the Magnificent North, where Jacks manipulates her into kissing Prince Apollo and becoming entangled in a royal engagement. After days of doubt and a lavish wedding ceremony, Evangeline uses her final promised kiss to break Apollo's manufactured love, only for him to collapse and appear dead. Accused of murder and chased by palace guards, Evangeline flees with Jacks's help and visits the vampire lord Chaos, where a dangerous encounter with a changeling version of Luc puts them both at grave risk. The truth finally surfaces when Prince Tiberius, undone by Evangeline's truth potion, confesses before witnesses that he is the one who killed his own brother.

The headline events of Evangeline's journey from heartbreak to princess fugitive.

Jacks seals the bargain by biting Evangeline's wrist and leaving three broken-heart scars on her skin.

Evangeline arrives home to find her family and the wedding party transformed into stone statues in the garden.

A Fate warns Evangeline in the palace laboratory that following Jacks will only lead to her destruction.

Marisol tells Evangeline that a wolf appeared without warning at their second wedding attempt and savagely mauled Luc.

Evangeline scatters a crowd of suitors by dramatically claiming she is cursed to turn anyone she kisses to stone.

Evangeline rushes to Luc's house and finds it emptied, realizing he and his family have left town permanently.

Evangeline meets Lala at the outdoor autumn party and senses the icy arrival of Jacks among the guests.

A Daily Rumor article depicts Evangeline as romantically entangled with Jacks at the outdoor party the night before.

Apollo overwhelms Evangeline with extravagant gifts including a feathered wedding gown, glittering treasure, and a stable of horses.

Evangeline confronts Jacks and demands he reverse the spell on Apollo; Jacks refuses to act until after the wedding.

A hidden arch in the matriarch's vault whispers to Evangeline that she could have unlocked it herself.

Apollo stays in Evangeline's room the night before the wedding, holding her without condition as she trembles with dread.

LaLa is revealed as the Unwed Bride Fate, and she administers the antidote that cures Evangeline's poisoned tears.

Evangeline unlocks Luc's cage in Chaos's lair and frees him despite Jacks's explicit warnings not to.

Marisol admits to casting a love spell on Luc but calls for the guards the moment Evangeline reveals her own deal with Jacks.

Behind every major turn in Evangeline's story lies a quieter moment of discovery, manipulation, or consequence that makes the larger events possible. From the bite that sealed her deal with Jacks to the wolf attack that ruined Luc and Marisol's second wedding attempt, these events build the world of deception Evangeline must navigate. Her arrival in the North brings new dangers, including Apollo's suffocating gifts and a whispered message from a magical arch confirming her unique power over locked doors. After Apollo's apparent death, Jacks's rescue leads to LaLa's true identity as a Fate being revealed, along with the antidote for the deadly poison infecting Evangeline's tears. Evangeline's fateful choice to free Luc from his cage against all warnings places both her and Jacks in mortal danger. The pool closes with Marisol's partial confession and her calculated decision to call the guards the very moment Evangeline exposes her own secret.

The hidden moments and secondary betrayals that shape Evangeline's fate.

Luc and Marisol's engagement announcement breaks Evangeline's heart and sends her on a two-week search for Jacks's church.

Evangeline admits to herself that Luc was probably never cursed and that she simply feared losing him to Marisol.

Marisol delivers an invitation from the new royals to Evangeline, who negotiates to bring Marisol north as her companion.

The Daily Rumor describes Apollo as bewitched with Evangeline, and she resolves to uncover the truth behind his feelings.

Jacks confesses he has manipulated Evangeline from the beginning because he believes she is the girl named in the prophecy.

Tiberius arrives at the wedding party and asks Evangeline directly and pointedly whether she truly loves Apollo.

The blood Jacks places on Evangeline's lips for the third kiss tastes bitter and wrong, like the taste of a mistake.

Jacks realizes Evangeline's falling tears are a heartbreak Fate's deadly poison and warns she will cry herself to death.

Chaos tells Evangeline and Jacks that a woman recently visited his potions master to acquire a specific deadly oil.

Evangeline uses her own blood to unlock a gate in the mausoleum and realizes for the first time her blood holds power.

Jacks tells Evangeline his heart briefly started beating when he kissed Donatella, but Donatella fell in love with someone else.

An exhausted Jacks drunkenly admits he was the one who persuaded the empress to send Evangeline north.

Evangeline discovers Marisol's spell book disguised on Jacks's shelf and brews a truth potion following its instructions.

Tiberius reveals under questioning that he belongs to a secret organization devoted to keeping the Valory Arch permanently sealed.

Evangeline finds Apollo alive underground in a suspended state and resolves never to open the Valory Arch for Jacks.

Every truth in Evangeline's story begins with a lie she told herself, and these events mark the precise moments when those lies crack open. From the heartbreak that sent her to Jacks's church to the slow admission that Luc was probably never cursed at all, Evangeline's journey is defined by confronting what she refused to see. As she moves north and deeper into Jacks's orbit, revelations accumulate: a prophecy that names her by description, a bitter taste warning her before the worst night of her life, and a drunken confession that Jacks engineered her arrival in the North from the very beginning. Jacks's surprising vulnerability — laid bare in his account of kissing Donatella and feeling his heart beat — hints at a connection between him and Evangeline that neither fully names. The closing discoveries, Apollo found alive underground, Marisol's spell book hidden on Jacks's shelf, and Tiberius's secret allegiance, force Evangeline to see how completely she has been maneuvered. She ends the story with clear eyes and a new resolve: to open the next door on her own terms.