The Auction (Kings of Ruin #1)
L. Knight
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· 48 ratings · 260 pages · Published: 17 May 2023
And they’re right… until she walks back into my life, and everything changes.
Ten years ago, I broke the heart of the girl I loved, and she ran from me, never giving me a chance to explain, leaving me devastated and crushed with guilt.
Now Lottie is back and working in my club. Which gives me the chance to put things right. I know she’s hiding a secret from me, but I can’t walk away from her.
When she enters an auction to sell her body, I refuse to let another man touch what is mine.
I offer her a way out, a marriage of convenience that will benefit us both. The contract says we’ll stay married for a year.
But the truth is, she was mine then, she’s mine now, and I’m never letting her go again.
When I was young, Lincoln Coldwell was the hero in my story. The boy who promised me forever. Until the day I found out it was all a lie and realized a girl like me could never be enough for the billionaire tycoon.
Now, ten years later, he’s the villain who holds my future in his hands.
Drowning in a sea of debt and determined to protect the one person that means the world to me, I reach for a lifeline and agree to auction off the one thing I have left to sell: my virginity.
With no place to hide, I face the man who still makes my pulse quicken. But I have demands of my own. I’ll give him my body for a year, but he’ll never have my heart again. And he can never find out the truth of what happened ten years ago.
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Tagged as:
- contemporary 8
- rich hero 8
- angst 6
- second chances 6
- poor heroine 5
- cruel hero/bully 5
- independent heroine 5
- possessive hero 5
- class difference 5
- marriage of convenience 4
- single mother 4
- virgin heroine 4
- friends to lovers 3
- new adult 3
- exhibitionism 3
- praise kink 3
- good grovel 3
- enemies to lovers 2
- take-charge heroine 2
- spanking 2
- height difference 2
- fake relationship 2
- betrayal 2
- m-f romance 2
- boss & employee 1
- grumpy & sunshine 1
- ceo/tycoon hero 1
- grumpy/cold hero 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
- sassy heroine 1
- competent heroine 1
- tortured heroine 1
- suspense 1
- tortured hero 1
- masc-dom 1
- found family 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- third party sexual assault 4
- past sexual abuse 2
- rape 1
- death / grief 1
- slut shaming 1
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 5
- first person pov 3
- standalone 1
romance tags
The 'Kings of Ruin' series
4.01 · 97 ratings
contemporary · audiobook · explicit-plentiful · length-medium · super rich hero · second chances · spanking · independent heroine · sassy heroine · cold hero · praise-kink · possessive hero · grumpy sunshine · sweet heroine · forced proximity · found-family · m-f · betrayal · competent heroine · single-mother
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