Ruthless King (Dark Syndicate 6) by Faith Summers-Review Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 30, 2021.

The truth hurts, but lies can kill…

I offered to do anything to save my father’s life when he was captured by the devil he owed a debt to.
A three-million-dollar debt.
So, I became the devil’s spy as I entered the lair of the Cartel King to take a job as a live-in nanny for his niece.
My orders were simple.

All I needed to do was this:
Get close to the Cartel King.
Be his to do anything he wants me to do.
Make him trust me enough to tell me the secrets his enemies need.

Do that, and I would save my father.
I just never expected to fall in love.
Or that Alejandro Ramírez would be the first man to heal my broken soul.

When he discovers the truth, I may wish I’d died instead of making that deal with the devil.

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REVIEW:RUTHLESS KING is the sixth instalment in Faith Summers’ contemporary, adult DARK SYNDICATE dark, erotic, age gap, Mafia romance. This is forty-eight year year old head of the Ramirez cartel Alejandro Ramirez, and twenty-five year old nanny Lucia Ferreira’s story line. RUTHLESS KING can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

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

Told from dual first person perspectives (Alejandro and Lucia) RUTHLESS KING follows in the wake of the abduction of Lucia and her father William Ferreira. William Ferreira owes millions of dollars to the mob, and Lucia is about to pay the price for her fathers transgressions. Alejandro Ramirez is the current head of the Ramirez Cartel, and needs a nanny for his one year old niece, and Lucia is ripe for the picking but what Alejandro doesn’t know is that Lucia has been tasked with uncovering any and all information about our story line hero, a man who is falling for his niece’s nanny. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Alejandro and Lucia, and the potential fall-out as betrayal against Alejandro comes from within including our story line heroine.

Lucia Ferreira doesn’t want to spy for the man known as El Diablo but her father’s life hangs in the balance, and Lucia is forced to gather information against the man with she will fall in love. Alejandro Ramirez lost everything approximately one and half years earlier, instantly becoming a single father to his two week old niece in the wake of her parents murder but Alejandro has spent the last few months desperately searching for the people responsible never realizing that the answer to his vengeance is the woman with whom he will fall in love.
The relationship between Lucia and Alejandro is an age-gap romance wherein Alejandro hires Lucia to be both nanny and a woman to warm his bed. From the outset their mutual attraction is palpable but Lucia knows that if her secrets are revealed, her life will be forfeit, along with the life of her father back home. The $ex scenes are intimate, seductive and intense without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters many of whom we have met in previous story lines. We are introduced to several of Alejandro’s security and members of the Ramirez Cartel, as well as Lucia’s father William, and the housekeeper/ former nanny Estelle. The requisite evil has many faces.

RUTHLESS KING is a story of betrayal and vengeance, secrets and lies, power and control, trust and obsession. The premise is heart breaking and emotional; the romance is captivating and provocative; the characters are broken, desperate , charismatic and lost.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Ruthless Prince
Dark Captor
Wicked Liar
Merciless Hunter
Heartless Lover

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Reviewed by Sandy

Raw heat is still streaking through my body just from the mere handshake.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more perfect man. 

Eyes the shade of a crow’s wing are locked on mine, and full symmetrical lips quirk up into a mercurial smile.

His face is all angles with high exotic cheekbones and a chiseled jaw you’d find on a storybook prince. The bright morning sun shines over his skin, making it look like the sun kissed it that color bronze. 

The gray streaks in his beard, hairline, and temples only serve to highlight his beauty and strength in what I can see of the rest of his body. As if to highlight that his perfection came with age and he’ll look even better and better, and sexier, the older he gets. The silver hoop in his ear tames him a fraction, adding to his style but also conjuring the image of a pirate in my mind. It gives a glimpse of the conquering cartel king he is. 

Of course, I was given a picture of Alejandro Ramírez before coming to this ill-fated interview. So, I already knew he looks like a seamless blend of Antonio Banderas and my all-time favorite Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui. 

Alejandro is what they would look like if they were one person. 

The lucid image makes me wonder if I really am stuck in a fucked-up rendition of a dark fairytale. One where he is the prince and I’m the villain, or maybe everyone is the antithesis to good in this story. 

Faith Summers is the Dark Contemporary Romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Author, Khardine Gray.

Warning !! Expect wild romance stories of the scorching hot variety and deliciously dark romance with the kind of alpha male bad boys best reserved for your fantasies.

Dive in and enjoy her naughty page-turners.

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