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Cruel King Kindle Edition

by K.A. Linde (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.5 435 ratings

Book 7 of 7: Cruel

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A new stand alone fake relationship romance set in the glitz and glamour of the Cruel world from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde...

The most eligible bachelor in New York City just asked me to be his fake fiancé.

Gavin King is six and a half feet of delectable billionaire with a devil’s smile that says he knows exactly what he’s going to do to me later. Because he has.

Three years ago, I caught him in the shower and promptly fell into his bed. But neither of us were relationship material. Not to mention I’d just broken up with his best friend.

Now, I’m back in the city and he has a plan:

Go to his cousin’s wedding.
Convince his family that he’s not an eternal bachelor.
Post a huge elaborate break up later.

With those big puppy dog eyes begging me to agree, claiming I’m the only one who can pull it off, I say yes. What could go wrong? Other than pulling it off so successfully that the line between real and fake blurs.

When my family flips the whole script, I can’t see a way out. And I’m starting to wonder if I even want one.

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	One Cruel Night	Cruel Money	Cruel Fortune	Cruel Legacy
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Tropes	FREE! one night stand, vacation romance, opposites attract	billionaire, bet, second chance	opposites attract, class warfare, ex's best friend	revenge, one true pairing, billionaire
Cruel Trilogy	.5	1	2	3
Cruel series


	Cruel Promise	Cruel Truth	Cruel Desire	Cruel Marriage	Cruel Kiss	Cruel King
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Tropes	FREE! first love, office romance, politcal	office romance, second chance, opposites attract	enemies to lovers, bad boy, daddy issues	arranged marriage, villains, need an heir	FREE! one night stand, vacation romp, friends to lovers	fake fiancé, good girl, only one bed
Cruel Trilogy
Cruel series	3.5	4	5	6	6.5	7

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Cruel King is a stand alone novel in the Cruel world featuring Gavin King. This novel can be read on its own or in order with the other novels.

Suggested Reading Order:
One Cruel Night (Cruel #.5) FREE
Cruel Money (Cruel #1)
Cruel Fortune (Cruel #2)
Cruel Legacy (Cruel #3)
Cruel Promise (Cruel #3.5) FREE
Cruel Truth (Cruel #4)
Cruel Desire (Cruel #5)
Cruel Marriage (Cruel #6)
Cruel King (Cruel #7)

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09TN4S8FH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ K.A. Linde Inc. (March 28, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 28, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1723 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #69,258 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,553 in Billionaire Romance
- #4,755 in New Adult & College Romance (Books)
- #13,578 in Contemporary Romance (Kindle Store)

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K.A. Linde is the USA Today bestselling author of more than fifteen novels including the Avoiding series and the Record series. She has a Masters degree in political science from the University of Georgia, was the head campaign worker for the 2012 presidential campaign at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the head coach of the Duke University dance team. She loves reading fantasy novels, geeking out over Star Wars, binge-watching Supernatural, and dancing in her spare time.

She currently lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband and two super adorable puppies.

Visit her online at www.kalinde.com and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @authorkalinde.

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Zeya

Cruel enjoyment

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024

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Having Whitley and Gavin's whole story was such a joy to read. It was fun, intense, emotional and passionate, to say the least.
Again, a wonderful read that had me from the beginning to the end, hating the times I had to put it down because of, well, life... 😂😂
I loved it so much and don't regret a single minute spent on following their love story unwrap.
Highly recommend this to anyone who loves a good love story.

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024

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Gavin & Whitley have a past. It's complicated. He's decided that since she moved back to NY, he's going to get her back. This is the telling of the sexy journey. Sweet, hopeful and....complicated. Well told, and completely "investable"( just made this word up?)

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Cathyhannahrblack

Cruel King 🤣... Not even close

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2023

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This story takes off from Cruel Desire. I would recommend you read that book 📚📖 before you read this one. Wow. This book had me very emotional, because that is who Whitley is. Whitley is an amazing plastic surgeon who is known from coast to coast. She said she went to California because she didn't want to get between Robert her ex-boyfriend and Gavin King who she's drawn to. Gavin King is heir to Texas oil fortune. He is the only child of Julianne and Edmond King. Gavin is heir to Dorset and King oil fortune 🔮. He comes from old money 💰. He has plenty of cousins' men and women who are like royalty in Midland Texas. So, we find that Whitley is back in town because she has been offered a partnership in her old office with the plastic surgeon she sees as a father figure more than her own Dad and Mom. Gavin has to go to a marriage in Midland and Gavin asks Whitley to go as his girlfriend but on their way in the limo to the private jet Gavin asks her to be his fake fiancée. This story was so emotional for me. I was so happy and the next thing you know tears were in my eyes. I really enjoyed this story it's one of those stories you want to read again, it's just that good. This was an awesome 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 read. I would highly recommend this book 📚📖 and this series. If you have not read any books 📚📖 by K.A. Linde I would start with this series and of course this book. I loved that Camden and Katherine and all the cast of characters that go make up this series were there, and it really was one of the best books in this series for me, I will never forget Penn and Natalie's stories though. Read this book.

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Virginia VanSaders

A Wonderful Read! I love Gavin and Whitley!

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2023

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Gavin King is heir to the oil corporation, Dorset & King. They have two locations; one in Texas and one in New York. Gavin runs the one in New York. Whitley is a plastic surgeon who moved to L.A. and back to New York after three years. Gavin and Whitley used to be each other’s wing man. Until they hooked up. But then, she just left for L.A. without a word.
Whitney left for a reason, but she is also a runner when things get too complicated rather than facing them. Fake date and fiancé lead to what? It’s a great story with determination on Gavin’s part. There are a lot of emotions to feel while reading. Misunderstandings take place. Of course, it is a steamy one, too. I would expect nothing less. I loved all the characters brought back to be included in this story.

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Dawn

Beautiful story!

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2023

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And a lovely addition to the Cruel series. Reading Whit & Gavin's story makes me want to revisit all of the CRUEL stories that came before this one. As always, K.A. Linde is right up there with Kat T. Masen as my favorite author of contemporary romance series. Not to mention, I love Linde's titles to her chapters/parts of a book. There's no one who does it better!

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Kindle Customer Cindy

Loved this!!

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2023

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I loved this story of Gavin and Whitley!! They both swore they would never get married. Gavin was in love with Whitley for a long time. Whitley had feelings for Gavin but like always, she ran away. He thought that maybe being a fake girlfriend and fake fiance would help convince Whitley she could do this, but he was wrong. It took them admitting their feelings to come together. I love this book and the whole series!! It's a MUST read!!

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Lynn Pool (Ellesea)

Lived up to my expectations and more...

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2023

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After reading Cruel Kiss, I couldn't wait to find out how Gavin and Whitley would manage to navigate a relationship...with each other! There's drama, heartache, deception, and mutual respect. Not surprisingly, their path to a HEA is a creative one.

Overall, a perfect ending for an unconventional couple cheered on and supported by their close-knit friends.

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lake girl 5276

Just not as good as the others.

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2023

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Maybe the endless “bad girlfriend” thing, or something, but the story just didn’t seem to keep me interested as the others did. I left this story several times. Wasn’t sure I wanted to finish it. But, the story picked up for me at about 65%. I don’t usually like waiting that long. The end was better then most of the rest.

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Joanne

CRUEL KING - Gavin and Whitley's story

Reviewed in Canada on December 28, 2023

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CRUEL KING (CRUEL #7) by K.A. Linde
Gavin and Whitley's story Tropes: Fake Engagement, Billionaire Playboy
I really enjoyed this fake engagement story by KA Linde. I have read quite a few books with this trope but Ms. Linde puts a different spin on this and kept me guessing. I loved the main characters. Both Gavin and Whitley had a lot of things in common. They had a past together that was never truly resolved and their feelings for each other were still strong. I like the side characters, all the friends were fun and believable, their banter hilarious. Gavin and Whitley had scorching chemistry. Scenes were intimate and sizzling. I am looking forward to more from this new series!!

Claire1310

Fantastic read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2024

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This book was outstanding could not put it down read it within a day I had to know what happened and it is now stuck in my head

Madelynn

Loved it

Reviewed in Australia on April 7, 2023

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I thoroughly enjoyed this story.
Gavin and Whit have great chemistry. Whit has issues and Gavin is determined to overcome them.
I’m not usually one for pure romance but Gavin was all in and that was hot.
Reading the novella Cruel Kiss first really set this story up.
I found I couldn’t put this book down.
The twists were not what I had been expecting and I enjoy being surprised. Well done

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