The King
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4.0 • 120 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
What’s worse than a gorgeous one-night stand who doesn’t remember you? Having to pretend to be his wife. For work.
The Rogues Division is a top-secret, highly-classified, “I’d tell you but I’d have to kill you” kind of organization. The kind of organization the government pretends not to love having at its disposal.
And we just got our newest recruit…Lachlan King, the sexy billionaire playboy who seduced me into one night of wild, soul-shattering, sex.
When I slipped out of his bed three months ago, I never expected to see him again. My future is set. I’m going to be a Rogues field agent. And field agents don’t date. Not to mention it’s forbidden to date each other. I’m relieved when he also pretends not to know me, so we can avoid any office awkwardness--until I realize he isn’t pretending.
Even worse luck, I’m assigned to play his lover in the field.
Okay, okay, deep breath. This mission will be easy. All I need to do is pretend to be madly in love with him and make sure neither of us die. Oh and remember this isn’t real. I’ve got to remember that. I cannot let this playboy seduce me again no matter what my belly does when he looks at me like I’m his.
Lachlan “the King,” however, has thrown himself into our undercover assignment a little too whole heartedly. He’s hell bent and determined on being as convincing as possible.
But there’s no way I’m letting him fake-husband me back into bed. I won’t fall for him this time. I won’t. Will I?
Customer Reviews
Great book
The middle of the book got a little boring, but I love Lachlan! Gabe is a little overwhelming, but he’s such a sweet guy inside and just trying to be a parent figure. Saffron gets on my nerves sometimes, the way she kept on pushing him away. Otherwise, this was a nice book, although I felt like the middle to end plot could have played out better.
emotional, intriguing, captivating
THE KING is the second instalment in Nana Malone’s contemporary, adult GENTLEMEN ROGUES erotic, romantic suspense series focusing on a British black ops group of men and women known as Rogues, who work for a group known as Oversight. This is the continuing story of twenty-five year old, billionaire playboy turned Rogue Lachlan King, and the twenty-two year old heir to the Rogue division Saffron Abbot. THE KING should not be read as a stand alone as King and Saffron’s story begins in the introductory novella THE HEIR.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Saffron and Lachlan) THE KING picks up several weeks after the events and cliff hanger of book one THE HEIR. On the night of her twenty-second birthday, Saffron embarked on a one-night stand with a stranger, a stranger who would not remember what happened or why. Weeks later, in the halls of the Rogue mansion, Saffron would come face to face with the man she could never forget but a man who did not remember our story line heroine. Enter Lachlan King and the man with whom Saffron would fall in love. Saffron Abbott is a Rogue; a member of an elite group of black ops operators currently overseen by Saffron’s brother Gabe but Gabe refuses to allow Saffron to engage in any outside jobs, a refusal that will pit brother against sister in a need to protect the surviving Abbott family. When Gabe gets news that the people responsible for the murder of their parents may have been found, Saffron and Lachlan King are tasked with getting up close and personal with the inner circle, a task that requires our couple to act as newlywed husband and wife but all does not go according to plan as Lachlan and the team must break protocol to save one of their own. What ensues is the rekindling romance and forbidden relationship between Lachlan and Saffron, and the potential fall-out as Saffron struggles with the knowledge that respect and trust are something she has apparently never earned.
The relationship between Saffron and Lachlan begins as a one-night stand that Lachlan cannot remember. Saffron is heart broken and hurt in the wake of her attraction to the man she is now responsible to train, a man who struggles with a familiarity he cannot recall. Forbidden to engage in a relationship between Rogues, Saffron and Lachlan must keep their affair on the down low, an affair that is not as secret as they had originally thought. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and passionate but I dislike the use of a certain four-letter word in my ‘romance’ story lines.
There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters: Saffron’s brother Gabe Webb, as well as Rogues and trainees Saint, Rookie, Robert, Maxim, and the return of Saffron’s best friend and fellow Rogue Tabatha. Saint’s story is next.
THE KING is an emotional story of betrayal and vengeance, heart break and hurt, trust and acceptance, family and friendships, relationships and love. The premise is intriguing and captivating; the romance is seductive and provocative; the characters are strong, impassioned, and dynamic.
Entertaining!
This is the second book in the Gentlemen Rogues series. Lachlan and Saffron's continues where the first book left off. Saffron is so strong, smart, and capable. Lachlan is handsome, charming, and supportive. They are perfect together. Their story is funny, sexy, action packed, and suspenseful, filled with intrigue, and drama. The world building is captivating, and entertaining. The supporting characters are intriguing. I loved it! The story ends with a big cliffhanger, and I am looking forward to reading The Saint, the next book in the series.