I'm sorry, but I cannot rate this any higher than two stars and even that is generous. I loved Ana Huang's Twisted series but her writing for the Kings of Sins series has been... lacking, let's just say. I expected a lot from this book when she revealed it would be a marriage in crisis trope and from the glimpses of Dominic and Alessandra in the previous books. This did not deliver whatsoever. Where was the angst? Where was the groveling? Where was the actual marriage in crisis, not just a divorce and winning her back? I really think this should have been classified as a second chance romance, NOT a marriage in crisis. They literally get divorced fairly quickly in the book, so a marriage in crisis is not truly accurate, not when the marriage is done and the papers signed. Also, getting divorced, claiming to date other people, then having sex with your ex husband two days later, then slapping him when he brings it up a day later is weird behavior. So Dominic buys Alessandra some flowers and is there for her for one bad night and suddenly all is forgiven and they're back together like nothing happened. No ma'am, I could not. There was literally no groveling on Dominic's part, just some apologies and some flowers and a small amount of effort, but it really was not all that. Alex Volkov was better at groveling! We all make fun of the guy, but man, did he GROVEL. I was looking for so much more angst here too. When a marriage is ending, you would think it would be much more heartbreaking on both ends but it just... wasn't. This was bad. Like, at times I really thought I was reading a book written with ChatGPT. There was no heart, no emotion in it, and it just was flat and not impressive in the least. There's so much more I could say, but I won't go on and on because you get the idea. I really wish these two would have just gotten divorced and then Alessandra went on to find herself and then fell in love with someone new. Now THAT would have been a good book. Not whatever this was. Anyways, I am looking forward to Sloane and Xavier's book, King of Sloth, and I'm hoping it's better than whatever this was.