Reign of a King is the first in the "Kingdom Duet" and I have been wanting to return to this author but I will say that I wasn't too impressed with the books I have read by this author in the past so I took some time before reading more from this author. But lately on Instagram I have seen so many rave about this book duo, so I decided to try this author again and I was completely hooked into this book. And this is most definitely my type of story, in fact, the vibe of this story reminded me a bit of Meghan March in some ways. I was really hooked into the set up of the romance which features a badass alpha male pretty much blackmailing the heroine into sharing his bed haha I know this setup won't work for everyone. But as a fan of dark romance, this type of theme really worked for me. I also really liked some of the more taboo themes, the hero is the heroine's husband of her sister who has been killed. So there is a lot of mystery, level of "forbidden" and lots of sexy hot vibes that this author is really good about. I was pretty fascinated to see where the author took this story and it definitely has some solid steam in this one with the BDSM aspects. There is also a strong hint of psychological thriller themes that I am finding very interesting to the theme. It ended with a cliffhanger but I had book 2 ready to go. Definitely a strong story and it pulled me in so quickly and I couldn't put it down at all and I was completely feeling the depths of the romance and eager to see where the author takes the finale.