The Kings of Kearny

Pages: 310
Published: 2021
Language: English

When Jakob, the dangerous enforcer for the crew that runs her small town, walks into her bar, the owner knows he's trouble. He suspects her grandmother's nursing home is being used for illegal activities and pulls her into his dark world to investigate. As they get closer to the truth, she has to decide if falling for a man like Jakob is worth giving up a peaceful life for something far more thrilling.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Romantic Spicy Tense Dark

Enemies to Lovers Morally Grey Forced Proximity

Spice level

3.0 avg spice

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Navessa Allen

Navessa Allen is a dark romance author best known for the Into Darkness series — Lights Out (2024), Caught Up (2025) and Game On (2026) — a #1 New York Times bestselling dark romcom trilogy that built its readership on BookTok before going to major publishers. Before writing full time, she worked as a bartender in the Caribbean, served in the military, built flight simulators for jet aircraft, ran a small business in Maryland, and farmed in rural New England, where she now lives on a 200-year-ol...