Oil Kings
5 primary works
Book 1
Kendall
After losing my job and my home in the same day, I need a miracle. And that miracle is coming in the form of an interview with the son of a local oil baron, Gentry King. The catch? I have to hop on a private jet with said gorgeous oil baron to get to the interview.
Except, I miss the interview when we get waylaid by a snowstorm. Now I'm stranded with Mr. King. In the same hotel room. With only one bed.
Gentry
I've made a promise to myself—no more women. It's not like I'm a love 'em and leave 'em kind of guy. They all know the score, and they're all looking for the same thing I am. But I have to set a better example for my grown sons, who seem to be making all the wrong decisions when it comes to their relationships.
The last thing I need is to be stranded in a snowstorm with Kendall, twenty years my junior and unintentionally sexy. We're stuck in very close quarters. With no electricity. And no heat other than what we can generate...
Book 2
When revenge turns into a fake engagement...
It was supposed to be a simple case of revenge: get to know King Tech owner and CEO Beckett King, learn his secrets, and ruin his life like he ruined my brother’s. But Beckett King offers me a deal I can't refuse.
Not only does he want me to pretend to be engaged to him, he needs to marry me to get his grandmother off his back. And at the end of the year, we can go our separate ways, only I’ll be a whole lot richer.
I won’t fall for his irresistible good looks, or that aw, shucks country-boy charm he still possesses from growing up on a ranch. I'm smarter than that. He has a lesson to learn and I'm the best one to teach him.
But that’s the tricky thing with revenge. It doesn’t always go as planned.
King's Ransom is a standalone novel in the Oil Kings series written by an award-winning author.
Book 3
Broke, jobless, and stranded in Las Vegas on Valentine’s Day, I am forced to call my parents for a bailout. Again. A pampered princess and wannabe environmentalist, I know I’m a cliché and would do anything to change it. So when I meet Xander, a struggling photojournalist with absolutely nothing in common with my domineering, millionaire parents, I know just where to go next:
A wedding chapel.
But when I wake up the next day, my matrimonial rebellion comes with an unpleasant surprise. My husband is no penniless globetrotter—Xander King is the son of a billionaire oil tycoon, and my parents couldn’t approve of the match more. Now the only thing that could shock them would be a quickie divorce…except my new husband has a proposition for me.
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I take one look at Savvy and know I could spend the rest of my life with her. The feeling is mutual…until she figures out who I am. I didn’t mean to hide my identity, and I thought a desire to get out from under the weight of familial baggage was something we had in common. But with Savvy just moments from proposing divorce, I offer her the one thing I’d been ready to walk away from:
A trust fund worth millions.
All Savvy has to do is stay married to me for a year and then she’ll get half—except I have no intention of letting her go after 365 days. I’ve spent a decade running from my father’s disapproval and my brothers’ successes. Now I’m willing to spend a lifetime convincing the woman I love to stay put by my side.
Book 4
I’m used to being the wicked witch of the west, from my red hair down to my pointed cowboy boots. My controlling daddy was a mean drunk and his passing left me with overdrawn accounts and a failing ranch. I might be a little cranky, a whole lot defensive, and even more desperate to save my land from being swallowed up by the neighbors my family’s been feuding with for generations.
The Kings already have everything—money, looks, and charm. They can’t have my home too.
Everyone loves to hate me. Everyone just plain loves the Kings, especially the youngest and hottest brother, Dawson.
***
I’ve had it easy my whole life, I admit it. I took over the ranch for my dad and am even more successful. I have the best views, skilled employees, and live in a town named after my family.
The only thing I don’t have is someone to share my big house with. So when I rescue my injured neighbor from freezing to death, I insist she stay at my place until she recovers. Unlike me, Bristol has no one else willing to help her.
But our time together only highlights how differently we grew up. Bristol’s had nothing but pride for so long, it’s hard to get close to her. And I want to get very close to Bristol.
I don’t care if the whole town loves me. I’m only interested in earning the love of one woman. But for a guy who’s gotten everything, Bristol’s heart might be out of my reach.
Book 5
When Aiden King asked me out years ago, I couldn’t believe it. Six months later, I went from mousy librarian to wife of the most wanted bachelor in town. Heck, in the state, probably the country. I moved from a trailer house to a mansion by the river.
Turns out, I shouldn’t have believed it. After years of being alone while Aiden put in long hours at the office, I learned his secret. He needed to marry for a year to fulfill his trust requirements, and the nerdy girl from the wrong side of the tracks was an easy target.
I never thought I’d be the girl asking a handsome millionaire for a divorce. Now, I just want to limp my pride back to my family and find myself again. I want to forget the question that’s eating at me. If he only needed to be married for a year, why has it been five years since we said I do?
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Work has become my identity. I went into the family business and the responsibility is staggering. One mess up and people can I die. I know that all too well and I’ve dedicated myself to doing better. I’m exceptional at my job. Meticulous. Dedicated.
But for a guy who’s such a perfectionist, I really messed up my marriage. It took Kate walking out to get me to wake up and realize what an empty existence I’ve built.
So what does a workaholic do when he realizes his work, and especially the money, means nothing to him? That there’s only one obsession he’s ever had, and she’s staying with her rowdy, overprotective family?
Kate’s always been the only one for me. It’s time for this King is going to loosen his tie and win back his queen.