💛MY DARK PRINCE (Dark Prince Road 3)by LJ Shen & Parker S Huntington-review tour💛

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 9, 2025

This Sleeping Beauty woke up…
In a nightmare.

Oliver
I don’t usually trap women with amnesia into marriage.
But I guess there’s a first time for everything.
When the woman of my dreams falls into my lap, I can’t help but wonder what else she can do in that position.
She’s here. In my house. At my mercy.
And she thinks we’ve been lovers the entire decade we spent apart.
Briar and I have always been unfinished business.
Now it’s time to seal the deal.

Briar
I’m marrying a beautiful monster.
A crooked fraud. America’s wealthiest bachelor.
He claims we’re in love, yet all I taste in our kisses is hate and lust.
I don’t remember why or how.
But I do remember he’s the enemy.
Now, I’m stuck inside a nightmare.
And Oliver will do anything to keep me in the dark.

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REVIEW: MY DARK PRINCE is the third instalment in the contemporary, adult DARK PRINCE ROAD erotic, dark, romance series co-authored by LJ Shen and Parker S Huntington. This is thirty-four year old, billionaire Count Oliver von Bismarck, and thirty-three year old, Briar Rose Auer’s story line. MY DARK PRINCE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Oliver and Briar) following a non linear timeline, MY DARK PRINCE focuses on the rekindling romance and relationship between Briar Rose Auer and Oliver von Bismarck. Briar Rose and Oliver were childhood best friends turned sweethearts but fifteen years ago, a tragedy would unfold in the von Bismarck family, and Briar Rose became an afterthought for our story line hero. Fast forward to present day, Briar Rose, working as a Hollywood intimacy coordinator would come face to face with her past in the guise of Oliver von Bismarck, and in the ensuing months Oliver would struggle to prove she is the only woman he has ever loved.

The world building is a modern, slight retelling of Sleeping Beauty, and follows several heart breaking and emotional paths. Briar Rose grew up never knowing love, having been abandoned by her parents, only to discover not everything and everyone where whom they appeared to be. Making her own way, Briar found herself no longer a part of the world in which she grew up, a world that no longer resembled the life she was knew. Oliver von Bismarck,along with his father, runs a large chain of luxury hotels, and is determined to reclaim the woman he lost but Oliver’s own life changed fifteen years earlier, and he has been serving a self-imposed penance ever since.

The relationship between Oliver and Briar is one of second chances; a rekindling in the face of presumed betrayal; heart break, secrets and lies. Briar struggles to trust the man she once loved, a man who is still keeping secrets at the insistence of someone else. As Oliver diligently works to prove he is not the man Briar believes him to be, Briar must come to terms with what happened in the past, a past that changed everyone going forward. The $ex scenes are limited but passionate.

The secondary and supporting characters include the return of Romeo and Dallas (My Dark Romeo), Zach and Farrow (My Dark Desire), as well as the introduction of Oliver’s brother Sebastian, their parents Count Felix and his wife Agnes von Bismarck; Oliver’s friend Frankie, Cameron Cooper, and Briar’s estranged and contemptable parents Jason and Philomena Auer. I am hoping the author has plans for Sebastian, and Frankie.

MY DARK PRINCE is a story of betrayal and vengeance, jealousy and greed, secrets and lies, power and control, forgiveness and acceptance, family and love. The premise is thought provoking,edgy, dramatic, haunting and complex; the romance is flawed and sensitive; the characters are broken, sassy, impulsive and inventive.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Also available in the Dark Prince Road series

#1 My Dark Romeo https://amzn.to/4g9LfEZ
#2 My Dark Desire https://amzn.to/4hrk49O

L.J. Shen is USA Today, WSJ, Washington Post and #1 Amazon Kindle Store bestselling author of contemporary romance books.

She writes angsty books, unredeemable anti-heroes who are in Elon Musk’s tax bracket, and sassy heroines who bring them to their knees (for more reasons than one).

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Parker S. Huntington is a stay-at-home dog mom from SoCal, where she discovered her allergy to rain. In spite of her shoddy attendance record and strong aversion to homework, she earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside and an A.L.M. in Literature from Harvard. When she’s not writing or exchanging food pics with her friends, she’s binge-watching an unhealthy amount of Netflix while curled up with her dogs.

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