The Lying Season aka Cruel Truth by K.A.Linde-Review Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 4, 2020

Walking away from Sam Rutherford was the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

It’s been five years since that day, and I’ve given up on looking for love. My focus is on my career. And it’s paid off—I’m successfully managing the reelection for the mayor of New York City.

Then Sam walks into my office as the new legal counsel. Which means I have to see him every single day from now until November. We vow to remain professional, but it’s a small office. The sly glances and his blistering charm are unavoidable.

It all feels so familiar. Too comfortable. After what happened the first time…I should know better.

If I’m not careful, he’ll break my heart all over again.

And I don’t know if I can survive Sam a second time.

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REVIEW:THE LYING SEASON by K.A. Linde is a contemporary, adult, stand alone, erotic, romance story line focusing on attorney and campaign assistant Larkin ‘Lark’ St. Vincent, and attorney Sam Rutherford.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Lark and Sam) THE LYING SEASON follows the rekindling romance between former lovers campaign assistant Larkin ‘Lark’ St. Vincent, and attorney Sam Rutherford. Five years earlier Lark and Sam’s relationship imploded but Lark never expected to come face to face with her past working for New York Mayor Leslie Kensington. As the re-election campaign headed into the finals months and weeks, Lark would struggle between head and heart knowing the last time she and Sam were together, it destroyed the woman she once was. What ensues is the rebuilding relationship and romance between Lark and Sam, and the potential fall-out as office politics push Sam and Lark apart, and Sam’s past comes looking for a second chance.

Larkin St. Vincent grew up wealthy; a part of the St. Vincent dynasty but our heroine never wanted to ride on her family coat tails, instead she was hoping to make it on her own. A disastrous breakup five years earlier weighs heavily on Larkin’s mind, yet she continues to struggle with feelings and emotions of the fateful demise. Sam Rutherford had no idea that Larkin St. Vincent worked for the Mayor’s re-election campaign. Fresh from his own breakup, Sam battles between head and heart knowing a rebound relationship would do neither one any good.

Meanwhile, the Mayor’s son Court Kensington is making news headlines of his own. Not wanting her son to affect her re-election campaign, Leslie Kensington hires a friend of Lark’s, Anna English, to ‘fix’ what her son doesn’t want to have fixed.

The relationship between Sam and Lark is one of second chances; a forbidden office romance that implodes when the Mayor discovers the truth about their affair. Lark struggles with what happened in the past, as Sam believes a different story about what happened and why. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful secondary and supporting characters including several of Larkin’s childhood friends, friends that come from wealth and power- the elite family’s of the Upper East Side. We are introduced to fixer Anna English; Court Kensington and his crew: Gavin King, Camden Percy; Lark’s friends Katherine Van Pelt and Whitley Bowen.

THE LYING SEASON is a story of family, friendships, power and control; of wealth and money; of secrets and lies; of second chances and love. The premise is inviting; the characters are sassy; the romance is spicy and tender. THE LYING SEASON is the introductory story line in K.A. Linde’s new series focusing on the friendships and lives of New York’s Upper East Side

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Reviewed by Sandy

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K.A. Linde is the USA Today bestselling author of the Avoiding Series, Wrights, and more than thirty other novels. She has a Masters degree in political science from the University of Georgia, was the head campaign worker for the 2012 presidential campaign at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the head coach of the Duke University dance team. She loves reading fantasy novels, binge-watching Supernatural, traveling, and dancing in her spare time.

She currently lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband and two super-adorable puppies.