SCORNED QUEEN (Wall Street Empire: Strictly Business 2) by Lisa Renee Jones-review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 25, 2024
The protégé king wants the king un-seated but it will be war, and a bloody one.
And you can only push a future queen so far before she says enough, and proves she’s as worthy for war as her man. Damion and Alana will come together to fight but first the boundaries of the past must fall.
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REVIEW: SCORNED QUEEN is the second instalment in Lisa Renee Jones’ contemporary, adult WALL STREET EMPIRE: STRICTLY BUSINESS erotic, romantic suspense series. This is thirty-three year old acquisitions/mergers/investor Damion West, and real estate agent/reality star Alana Blue’s continuing story. SCORNED QUEEN should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up after the events of book one PROTEGE KING.
NOTE: The author previously released the first thirteen chapters as Scorned Queen Part 1 but the current story line includes both parts one and two.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Damion and Alana), in two parts, using present day and memories from the past, SCORNED QUEEN follows in the wake of the rebuilding relationship between our story line couple. Damion is desperate to protect the woman he loves but Alana struggles to trust the man who broke her heart.Threats to Alana, by the man hoping to destroy Damion, are taken seriously when Damion brings in the team from Walker Security but even Adam and Savage are unable to protect the people Alana loves.
The world building continues to focus on Damion’s war with the man in charge. Trying to sway support to his side is met with opposition, and Alana is about to come face to face with the man threatening to destroy our story line hero.
The relationship between Alana and Damion is one of second chances. Years earlier, in an effort to protect the woman he love, Damion walked out of Alana’s life, leaving a heart broken and angry woman in his wake. Fast forward to present day wherein Damion has returned to claim our story line heroine but the predator has become more dark and dangerous. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top sexually graphic language and text.
All of the previous secondary and supporting characters return including Alana’s embattled parents, Damion’s father, as well as the appearance of Blake Walker, Adam and Savage.
SCORNED QUEEN is, once again, a story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, greed and jealousy, issues of trust, blackmail and deceit. The fast paced, character driven premise is intriguing and dramatic; the romance is seductive; the characters are desperate, determined and dynamic but there is too much waffling, back and forth from our story line heroine. SCORNED QUEEN ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.
Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one PROTEGE KING
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Reviewed by Sandy
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series. Suzanne Todd (producer of Alice in Wonderland) on the INSIDE OUT series: Lisa has created a beautiful, complicated, and sensual world that is filled with intrigue and suspense. Sara’s character is strong, flawed, complex, and sexy – a modern girl we all can identify with.
In addition to the success of Lisa’s INSIDE OUT series, she has published many successful titles. The TALL, DARK AND DEADLY series and THE SECRET LIFE OF AMY BENSEN series, both spent several months on a combination of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling lists.
Prior to publishing Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by the Dallas Women’s Magazine. In 1998 Lisa was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.
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