TITLE: Promised Love
AUTHOR: Vikki Jay
SERIES: Kings Security
SERIES ORDER: 2
PUBLISHED: 11/21/2022
AVAILABLE IN KU: Yes
Genre: Small Town Romance
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
BLURB:
Getting stuck sharing a honeymoon suite with a hot, ex-NAVY Seal sounds like it should be a good time. Except Lukas is my husband and we haven't spoken in years.
Until today, we were living separate lives, waiting to get out of this arranged marriage. But my family's meddling has pushed us together. And now he's here filling out his t-shirt just a little too well and staring at me just a little too intensely.
Don't even get me started on the cleft on his chin that pops up every time he smiles. The man has temptation written all over him.
We manage to stay out of each other's way–mostly. Until the tension boils over one night in a car.
I straddle his lap. I press my lips to his. I feel his body against mine. And that one hot moment has me offering something I never thought I would.
What happens in the honeymoon suite, stays in the honeymoon suite.
But what Lukas and I share in that room is so much more than just physical. With every kiss, every caress, every touch, I start forgetting our reality, and wonder if we've got it all wrong.
We planned our divorce four years ago. But what if our plans have changed?
MY REVIEW:
DISCLAIMER: I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Promised Love by Vikki Jay is hands down my favorite book of hers that I’ve read yet. This book reminded me of some of the books I used to read growing up where a couple fell in love after they were married.
Lukas Spencer and Autumn Smith are in an arranged marriage, created by their grandparents. I loved the flashbacks that Vikki gave us in the form of their emails back and forth to each other during the time in between when they first got married, and when this story begins.
I was completely immersed in this story and do not regret that I will likely be a walking zombie at work later today! I loved watching Lukas and Autumn fall for each other (though I do think they were falling for each other during their correspondence while they were separated) and I loved watching them grow as individuals as the story progressed. Lukas Spencer has ruined me for all other book boyfriends! It sounds diabolical, but I love how conflicted he was! What is it about a tortured bad boy that is willing to risk his own happiness for the sake of the girl?
If you like small town romance, age gap romance, a good slow burn, virgin heroine, forced proximity, arranged marriage or marriage of convenience, I highly recommend you check out this book! I do think this can be read as a standalone, but if you really want to get to know the characters in this story, it’s best to read this series from the beginning, with Beautiful Rose from Vikki’s Teager Family series as well as Second True Love (the first book in the King’s Security series.)
Thank you Vikki for writing such an incredible love story, and for giving me the opportunity to read an advance copy.