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Kingmakers Year One
A Spicy Friends to Lovers Dark College Romance (Kingmakers Book 1)
Series: Kingmakers
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From the USA Today bestselling author of the Brutal Birthright series comes the next generation. Welcome to Kingmakers, the most brutal college in the world. Leo follows his best friend Anna behind its walls, and the result is a forbidden friends-to-lovers romance filled with mystery, suspense,...
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From the USA Today bestselling author of the Brutal Birthright series comes the next generation. Welcome to Kingmakers, the most brutal college in the world. Leo follows his best friend Anna behind its walls, and the result is a forbidden friends-to-lovers romance filled with mystery, suspense, and scathingly sexy bedroom scenes that take place everywhere but the bedroom.
From the USA Today bestselling author of the Brutal Birthright series comes a dark college mafia romance series. Welcome to Kingmakers, the most brutal college in the world.
Bound by blood, torn by love...
In the shadowed halls of Kingmakers, a ruthless mafia university, the offspring of the world's most feared families come to master the dark arts of influence and intimidation.
Leo, unwaveringly loyal to his childhood friend, Anna, follows her into a world where love is a weapon, trust is a casualty, and survival is the only victory that matters.
But the greatest danger comes from Dean Yenin, a Bratva heir with a vendetta as cold as his heart. Dean plans to destroy Leo and take everything he holds dear, starting with Anna.
Can Leo win back his soul mate? Or is Anna lost forever?
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781464233852
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 August 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloom Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 36.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 426g
Pages: 496
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Sophie Lark is the USA Today bestselling author of Brutal Prince and the Sinners Duet. She lives in Southern California with her husband and three children. Her favorite authors are Emily Henry and Freida McFadden, and she looks forward to Halloween every year.
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