Scorned Queen

Fast paced, intriguing, dramatic

SCORNED QUEEN is the second instalment in Lisa Renee Jones’ contemporary, adult WALL STREET EMPIRE: STRICTLY BUSINESS erotic, romantic suspense series. This is thirty-three year old acquisitions/mergers/investor Damion West, and real estate agent/reality star Alana Blue’s continuing story. SCORNED QUEEN should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up after the events of book one PROTEGE KING.

NOTE: The author previously released the first thirteen chapters as Scorned Queen Part 1 but the current story line includes both parts one and two.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Damion and Alana), in two parts, using present day and memories from the past, SCORNED QUEEN follows in the wake of the rebuilding relationship between our story line couple. Damion is desperate to protect the woman he loves but Alana struggles to trust the man who broke her heart.Threats to Alana, by the man hoping to destroy Damion, are taken seriously when Damion brings in the team from Walker Security but even Adam and Savage are unable to protect the people Alana loves.

The world building continues to focus on Damion’s war with the man in charge. Trying to sway support to his side is met with opposition, and Alana is about to come face to face with the man threatening to destroy our story line hero.

The relationship between Alana and Damion is one of second chances. Years earlier, in an effort to protect the woman he love, Damion walked out of Alana’s life, leaving a heart broken and angry woman in his wake. Fast forward to present day wherein Damion has returned to claim our story line heroine but the predator has become more dark and dangerous. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top sexually graphic language and text.

All of the previous secondary and supporting characters return including Alana’s embattled parents, Damion’s father, as well as the appearance of Blake Walker, Adam and Savage.

SCORNED QUEEN is, once again, a story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, greed and jealousy, issues of trust, blackmail and deceit. The fast paced, character driven premise is intriguing and dramatic; the romance is seductive; the characters are desperate, determined and dynamic but there is too much waffling, back and forth from our story line heroine. SCORNED QUEEN ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.