A Hateful Negotiation (Kings of New York 4) by Tijan-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 13, 2026

Creighton was a dangerous crime boss with a growing empire. And he’s a psychopath.

He’s also obsessed with Blake.

She wanted a normal life. That meant new friends and a life without Creighton.

Except when Blake moves to New York for her senior year of college, Creighton follows because he knows that danger is close behind. He has always protected Blake, and he always will protect her, even if Blake hates how ruthless Creighton has become for her.

However, once they’re in New York, the dynamics between the two begin to change. Tensions heat up, and soon their chemistry is sizzling beyond what Blake can handle.

That means that their usual back-and-forth has to change, with new rules and a new agreement.

Perhaps this negotiation could be for their happily ever after?

They’ll just need to survive each other first

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REVIEW:A HATEFUL NEGOTIATION is the fourth instalment in Tijan’s contemporary, adult KINGS OF NEW YORK, dark, erotic, Mafia romance series. This is twenty-eight year old, businessman and Mafia boss Creighton ‘Eight’ Lane, and twenty-two year old, college student Blake Green’s story line. A HATEFUL NEGOTIATION can be read as a stand alone with out any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. By way of mention, there is a slight cross-over with the author’s Bennett Mafia series, and the Carter Reed Series.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives ( Creighton and Blake) using present day and memories from the past, A HATEFUL NEGOTIATION focuses on the obsessive relationship and protection of our story line heroine. Blake Green grew up in the foster care system, where she would meet and befriend future mob boss Creighton ‘Eight’ Lane. Creighton immediately became guardian and protector of our story line heroine, so much so, that when Blake was targeted by another faction of the New York mob, Creighton took no prisoners, leaving no one behind but Blake’s new college placement finds a familiarity including the security and guards provided by the man she has always love, a man with whom she struggled to keep from destroying the people she loved. Having crossed territories, threats for past sins, and another target on our heroine’s back, Creighton and his team are preparing for war, a war that no one is going to win.

The world building follows several paths including the protection of a woman who struggles between head and heart, believing she is not worthy of love or her own happily ever after. The diverging heads of the various Mafia families are heading to war, and our heroine is about to become a pawn in winner takes all.

The relationship between Blake and Creighton is a friends to frenemies to lovers in which Crieghton has declared Blake as his own but someone else has fallen in love with our story line hero, and a perceived betrayal will push them out of his life. As Blake struggles with both her need for, and anger towards our story line hero, Blake is well aware, that the world would never survive the wrath of Creighton Lane, should something happen to our story line heroine. The $ex scenes are provocative and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is another large ensemble cast of colorful, familiar and energetic secondary and supporting characters. We are reintroduced to Mafia heads Tristian West ( A Dirty Business), and Ashton Walden (A Cruel Arrangement), Sophie and Pialto; Creighton’s men Levi and Lassiter, as well as the introduction of Yakuza auxiliary and Blake’s roommates, Heath Nogoskeski, Niko, and Marshall Finch.

A HATEFUL NEGOTIATION is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, obsession and family, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is dark, dramatic,and edgy; the romance is impassioned; the characters are desperate, determined and dangerous.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Tijan is a New York Times Bestselling author that writes suspenseful and unpredictable novels. Her characters are strong, intense, and gut-wrenchingly real with a little bit of sass on the side. Tijan began writing later in life and once she started, she was hooked. She’s written multi-bestsellers including the Carter Reed Series, the Fallen Crest Series, and the Broken and Screwed Series among others. She is currently writing a new YA series along with so many more from north Minnesota where she lives with a man she couldn’t be without and an English Cocker she adores. 

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