The Kingmaker

From beloved,RITA-award-winning author Kennedy Ryan comes the first in her gripping All the King’s Men duology. In a world of haves and have-notsMaxim Cade’s family and their oil empire have it all…and he wants nothing to do with it. At odds with his mogul fatherhe’s determined to build his own empireeven if it means traveling far from homepainted as the black sheep. Lennix Hunter is the exception to every one of Maxim’s rules. At a protest for the oil pipeline that threatens to mar her ancestral land foreverthey meet in a flurry of stars and sparksand that one moment changes everything. But Maxim’s family is the one stealing from hersand his father is the man she hates most. He has to lie in order to have her onceand despite the truthhe’ll do anything to keep her. Even though Lennix tries to hate Maximtootheir hearts are pointed in the same direction. The inexorable pull between themacross miles and yearswill not be denied. And neither will Maxim.