Devilish King

Theo Valentino's life was mapped out before he existed. He is the heir to the Valentino throne — a kingdom built with blood and dirty money, and one he fully intends to rule. He loves his father and respects him, and he has been content enough to play the role he was assigned at birth. It is only lately that his father's plans for him have started to feel archaic, and only since he met her that they have started to feel impossible.

Holly arrives at JFK with a new job, a new city and a new country, telling herself this is the new her. The white picket fence she once wanted has been replaced by something simpler: experience life, find out who she is with no one else's shadow over her, and survive New York without getting mugged. Then she runs into Theo, and there is something dark in him that answers a part of her she did not know was there — and the question becomes how much of her own moral compass she is willing to ignore.

Devilish King is the first book in Kylie Kent's Valentino Empire, a dark mafia romance told in alternating first-person chapters. The author notes it contains scenes that could be triggering, and the book ends on a cliffhanger that runs into the next instalment.