Snowed in with her off-limits celebrity client. What could go wrong?

 

 

Drama King, an all-new standalone forced proximity, mistaken identity, romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Penny Reid, is now available!

 

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Blurb

Stuck with her off-limits, taciturn, hunky movie star client during a sudden snowstorm on Christmas Eve, an extremely capable and highly professional bodyguard must keep him alive and warm without letting the tension building between them get too hot.

Bathsheba (Beth) Ryan can’t thank her best friend enough for helping her land the job of her dreams. After being relegated to second-string security for politicians in DC, being hired as an undercover personal security specialist by a giant Hollywood studio is exactly the kind of action she’s always wanted.

Until she meets her first assignment.

Cyrus Malcom can’t thank his agent enough for arranging a blind date with seemingly the woman of his dreams. After spending the past several years playing all the parts and climbing all the ladders, the lonely mega movie star finds himself actually enjoying a night on the town for the first time in ages when he meets the gorgeous, funny, and genuine Ryaine O’Rourke.

Until she shows up at his studio meeting the next day with a completely different name.

A world-wide press tour and too many late-night parties later, Beth simply needs to get through a short, one-day visit during the Christmas holiday, and then she’ll be free of Cyrus Malcom’s confusing hot looks and cold shoulders for good.

But just as they leave the airport, it starts to snow . . .

‘Drama King,’ the second book in the Three Kings Series, is a full-length, contemporary romantic comedy, and can be read as a complete standalone.

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Review

5 “my hero” stars!!

The Three Kings series is back with Drama King and it was fantastic. It has the perfect combination of humor and heart, slow burn goodness, sizzling sexual tension, and smoking hot chemistry, and I couldn’t put it down.

Cyrus and Beth’s initial meeting is hilarious and I loved their interactions. It’s so funny but also a bit of a train wreck as the night goes on especially since Cyrus continues to think Beth is his blind date, Ryaine, while Beth was just scoping Cyrus out for her friend. However, when they officially meet again, Cyrus is surprised that woman he met is not actually Ryaine, but instead Beth, one of the new members of his personal security team.

Beth and Cyrus are forced into close proximity and it makes things strained. From their embarrassing first encounter to the attraction that consumes them, she desperately tries to focus on her job as he trying to understand why they don’t seem to get along. The sexual tension skyrockets but there doesn’t seem to be a way to relieve it. I just wanted them to figure things out early on but they needed to work through things and it wasn’t exactly clear what needed to be done.

There are things about Cyrus that pulled at my heart strings and I adored him. He shows the world the fun, cuddly side of him and doesn’t let anyone see his serious side. There is a reason he is the way he is but we don’t get to see it until the end and I just wanted to hug him. He had a lot of growing to do on a personal level and I love that he goes all in to find himself.

Beth lives her life the opposite of Cyrus. She is serious and organized. She puts one hundred percent into her job and doesn’t let anyone get close to her. Being in the same vicinity of Cyrus challenges her and she doesn’t know what to do with the feelings she’s having. Finally, she can’t stand it anymore and makes the decision to distance herself.

She thinks a little time is all she needs to get over Cyrus but when she’s needed to guard Cyrus once more as a last resort, she can’t refuse. Suddenly, with snow falling around them they find themselves stranded all alone in a cabin and they are finally forced to confront their feelings. Even that proves to be difficult and it seems like these two will never be on the same page.

Overall, I adored Drama King. Cyrus and Beth are fantastic and their story shows us the different ways people cope with the things that happened in their past and the way those particular things shape them into the people they are today. They change so much over the months that they know each other and I loved that there was give and take on both sides. I also enjoyed the secondary characters, and loved that it was a group of women bodyguards protecting the man instead of the other way around.

*ARC generously provided by the author and Social Butterfly PR*

 

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About the Author

Penny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author of the Winston Brothers, Knitting in the City, Rugby, and Hypothesis series. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she writes kissing books. Penny is an obsessive knitter and manages the #OwnVoices-focused mentorship incubator / publishing imprint, Smartypants Romance. She lives in Seattle Washington with her husband, three kids, and dog named Hazel.

 

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