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The Bastard

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The Bastard

By: Lisa Renee Jones
Narrated by: Jason Clarke, Erin Mallon
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I'm the bastard child, son to the mistress, my father's backup heir to the Kingston empire. He sent me to Harvard. I left and became a Navy SEAL, but I'm back now, and I finished school on my own dime. I'm now the right-hand man to Grayson Bennett, the billionaire who runs the Bennett Empire. I'm now a few months from being a billionaire myself. I don't need my father's company or his love. My "brother" can have it. I will never go back there. I will never be the mistake my father made, the way he was the mistake my mother made.

And then she walks in the door, the princess I'd once wanted more than I'd wanted my father's love. She wants me to come back. She says my father needs to be saved. I don't want to save my father but I do want her. Deeply. Passionately. More than I want anything else.

But she's the Princess and I'm the Bastard. We don't fit. We don't belong together and yet she says he needs me, that she needs me. We're like sugar and spice, we don't mix, but I really crave a taste. Just one. What harm can just one taste do?

©2018 Julie Patra Publishing (P)2019 Audible, Inc.
Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Royalty

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I liked the tension, the immediate fire but the back and fourth got so repetitive and eventually boring. Great narrators

DNF at 60%

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Enjoyed the audiobook but I always feel cheated when it ends on a cliffhanger. I feel this story was drawn out unnecessarily.

Ends on a cliffhanger

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Page after page of average sex scenes and very little story. I was very disappointed.

Pulp erotica

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