Alex Wilder

The Borderlanders series

HEXED

Good deeds don't go unpunished. Trust me — I tried.

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Book 1 · Chapter 1

The squelching sound under my foot made me wince.

In school, they used to call me Lucky Matt. Ironically, of course.

My grandma had a different name for it: “Hexed.”

Life’s like a box of chocolates — you never know which one you’ll step in.

Belfast, Maine

A quiet town with a hidden layer.

  1. Belfast, Maine. Population 6,500. Lobster boats, fog off Penobscot Bay, a harbor that goes quiet early.

  2. Under it: the Old Folk — imps, house spirits, things in the marsh — and the Borderlanders who keep the peace. Or don’t.

  3. And one unlucky delivery driver who just inherited a power he never asked for.

Meet the cast

Everyone here wants something.

The Borderlanders series

Start with Book 1. Stay for the family.

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Start here · Book 1

HEXED The Curse That Found Me

A dying stranger's last gift: a curse, a demon roommate, and a hidden world that wants him dead.

Good deeds don't go unpunished. Trust me — I tried.

I simply tried to help a dying old woman. Sweet, right? Except she “thanked” me by cursing me with something ancient and dangerous. Now I see monsters lurking in the shadows, I share my apartment with a demon who won’t shut up, and people keep calling me a Borderlander like that’s supposed to mean something.

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Book 2

HEXED Cards and Consequences

A curse to lift, a devil to win off a card table — and a family worth burning the world down for.

Moving didn't fix anything. It just meant the thing hunting me had to work a little harder to find me.

Now I've got a curse to lift, a devil to win off a card table, a neighbor who's stronger than any human has a right to be, and a growing list of very non-human friends I'd apparently die for.

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Book 3 · Out October 14

HEXED Sworn and Hunted

He swore fealty to survive. Nobody told him what they’d want in return.

Turns out swearing an oath to a Prince doesn't come with a welcome basket.

Now I've got a household spirit with the worst luck in the county, a client who thinks his dead wife is haunting him, a ratnik wasting away from something even the Old Folk are scared to name — and the man who's been trying to kill me since Book One isn't the villain of this one.

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Readers say

4.7 from 68 ratings on Amazon

“It’s witty without trying too hard, dark without being heavy, and the sarcasm feels earned rather than forced.”
Vincenzo D · Amazon review
“I loved that it’s set in Maine — it feels different from the usual big-city fantasy.”
Kayla · Amazon review
“The Hollowmother gave me chills. I would love to have Grimm as my roommate.”
TRicketts · Amazon review
Alex Wilder at night above a city of lights

The author

Alex Wilder

Hey, I’m Alex Wilder — part-time writer, full-time lover of cursed stories, strange magic, and characters who talk back.

HEXED is the series I always wanted to read: a funny voice, a scary world, and a sincere heart under the jokes. Matt Warden is the unluckiest man in Belfast, Maine — and he’s been asking for a refund since page one.

Books 2, 3 and 4 land this fall: September 30, October 14 and November 1. Probably with more curses.

Grimm the imp sprawled on a couch with a jar of whiskey, lit by the TV

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