🔖 RELEASE DAY BLITZ 🔖 King’s Ransom by Marie Johnston {REVIEW}

King’s Ransom by Marie Johnston

Release Date: April 6th 2020 by LE Publishing

Series: Oil Kings #2

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

When revenge turns into a fake engagement...

It was supposed to be a simple case of revenge: get to know King Tech owner and CEO Beckett King, learn his secrets, and ruin his life like he ruined my brother’s. But Beckett King offers me a deal I can't refuse.

Not only does he want me to pretend to be engaged to him, he needs to marry me to get his grandmother off his back. And at the end of the year, we can go our separate ways, only I’ll be a whole lot richer.

I won’t fall for his irresistible good looks, or that aw, shucks country-boy charm he still possesses from growing up on a ranch. I'm smarter than that. He has a lesson to learn and I'm the best one to teach him.

But that’s the tricky thing with revenge. It doesn’t always go as planned.

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My Review:

King’s Ransom is the second book in the Oil Kings Series, a story full of romance, secrets and second chances. Without a doubt a story that will leave you wanting for more.

Eva Chase has dealt with a lot in her life and she is at the point where she wants to do what she can to make things right for her brother, Adam. After his dream of launching an app was crushed, he succumbed to depression and their lives have not been the same. Eva has been working tirelessly to make ends meet and she can’t see her brother suffering while the man that did that to him keeps getting more attention/money. So she plans to get revenge by learning his dark secrets in order to humiliate and crush Beckett King. But she wasn’t expecting to get is a fake engagement from the very same man that hurt her brother. Now she has to play along for Beckett to receive his trust money and she’ll be able to get half of it as well. It will finally solve her problems, yet Eva wasn’t prepared to fall with the enemy. Now she’ll have to decide if she wants to keep going along with her plan for revenge or let herself be happy with the man that might just be falling for her as well.

Beckett Parshall King comes from a very wealthy family, but that didn’t stopped him from becoming a self-made millionaire and tech giant. He has the looks and money to get just about anyone he could possibly have, but he isn’t looking for love. He on a deadline to find the perfect fiancee that would agree to marry him for a year and when he sees Eva for the first time he knows that she would perfect for the job. She is the completely opposite of the woman he is used to seeing and he finds her personality refreshing. He can see her bringing her to his family home and letting everyone know that they are together. But it’s all the time that they spend together that he begins to have feelings for her. Everyone has their own secrets and he is about to find out who Eva really is.

I was really impressed with the story as a whole. Johnston did a great job making the characters relatable and believable. They both have such hard working personalities and they compliment each other very well. Eva is fierce and will do anything to protect those that she loves, even if it means pretending to be a fake fiancee to her enemy. On the other hand, Beck is ruthless when it comes to his job and he is very selective with the people he does business with and we get to know why he is like that in the book. While their chemistry if off the charts and we get lots of romance between them, they also need to let go of their pasts in order to move on. The ending was sweet, but I do wish the author could have added more details in the story as some of the scenes felt rushed. I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series! I will highly recommend checking out King’s Ransom. ;)

**I voluntarily read an early copy of this title in exchange for an honest review**

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About the Author

Marie Johnston is a RITA® Finalist, and a best-selling and award-winning writer of paranormal and contemporary romance – and an avid reader of them both. ​

Several years ago, when kids started outnumbering adults in the house, Marie Johnston left her job as a public health microbiologist to stay at home. Settling into working part-time and shuttling kids around gave Marie the opportunity to think about what she wanted to be when she grew up. A die-hard science geek, she explored her previously thought to be non-existent creative side after much time spent making snowman crafts and coloring princesses. Having entertained thoughts of writing a book one day then subsequently deciding it would be too hard, she finally put the figurative pen to paper and began to type – and fell in love with story telling.

The Sigma Menace is the first series by Marie with Fever Claim being her first book EVER. She is humbled by the fact that people are willing to read to her books and looks forward to keeping readers entertained for many years.

Marie lives with her husband and four kids in the Upper Midwest where the summers are gorgeous, the winters are brutal, and spring and fall are luxuries.

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