PROTEGE KING (Wall Street Empire: Strictly Business 1) by Lisa Renee Jones-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 16, 2023

Damion West was the boy who stole my young heart and then broke it. That was a long time ago though and I’m not a girl susceptible to hot boys with big egos who just happen to kiss well anymore. Nor have I kept up with Damion West. Okay, I have. Everyone has. He’s the heir to West Enterprises.

Everyone knows Damion West.
Just not like I do.
But that’s another story better left untold.

It’s hard sometimes to remember that I’m no slouch myself. Confidence isn’t exactly my forte but I fake it well. I’ve worked with my parents’ real estate firm catering to the rich and famous for years and I’m now one of the top agents in the country. Blue Enterprises is the name of our firm, which is also my name. Blue. Alana Blue. And now I’m on TV, the star of Selling in New York.

But every family has secrets. Damion’s does and mine does as well.
That’s why I have the TV show I didn’t really want.
Nothing is real.
Except him. Damion. He’s real. So is my past with him. But it’s the past.

Then one day I get called to a meeting by the studio head, it’s all very secretive.
Because it’s not the studio at all, or actually, it is. Because his family owns everything.

That’s right.
The meeting is with him. It’s with Damion West.
And Lord help me, he’s now sexier, and more arrogant than ever.

Also it turns out that what Damion wants from me isn’t as simple as a real estate contract.
But it’s a contract all right.

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REVIEW: PROTEGE KING is the first instalment in Lisa Renee Jones’ contemporary, adult WALL STREET EMPIRE: STRICTLY BUSINESS erotic, romance series. This is thirty-three year old acquisitions/mergers/investor Damion West, and real estate agent/reality star Alana Blue’s story line.

Told from three first person perspectives (Damion, Alana and Ellen) and memories from the past, PROTEGE KING follows the second chance relationship between Damion West and Alana Blue. Damion and Alana were childhood best friends and neighbors until the day Damion’s father sent our hero away but all was not well in Alana’s life when she discovers that her mother and father have kept secret a life that Alana is going to pay. Unable to complete her degree, Alana begins working for her father’s firm, landing a job on television selling real estate to the rich and infamous but a meeting with the people in charge finds Alana facing the past, and the man she has always loved. What ensues is the rebuilding but tempestuous relationship between Alana and Damion, and the potential fall-out as Damion’s plans for the future become personal and dangerous.

The relationship between Alana and Damion is a rekindling romance between two people destroyed by the sins of the father. Alana is slowly discovering the depth of her parent’s betrayal, and the connection to the West Family business. Damion requires more than a plus one to rise to the top, but someone else is standing in the way of his need to succeed. The $ex scenes are intimate and provocative without the use of over the top sexually graphic language and text.

Then secondary and supporting characters include Damion’s controlling father Erick West, and Alana’s mother Ellen.

PROTEGE KING is a story power, control and money, addiction, vengeance and betrayal, second chances and acceptance. The fast paced premise is intriguing and compelling; the romance is seductive; the characters are desperate and determined. PROTEGE KING ends on a cliff hanger.

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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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