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Review: Deep Pockets (Kings and Rivals #1) by Nana Malone

Deep Pockets, the first installment of Kings and Rivals by Nana Malone is LIVE NOW!



A brand new Billionaire Forced Proximity Romance from WSJ and USA TODAY Bestselling author, Nana Malone.

I was never supposed to have a crush on my best friend's little sister. Morgan is too young. Too innocent. And she's in far too much danger.

I’ve built a legitimate empire in New York, far from the life of shadows and violence in which I was raised. I'm heir to a dark throne.

When she needs temporary shelter, I allow her to crash at my place. Being this close to her, without touching her, hurts like hell. But I can play the white knight for a few weeks.

I have to stay away from her, even while I keep her safe.

Even if it means not touching her beautiful body.

Even if it means seeing the hurt in her eyes.

Then my former life comes crashing in. She doesn’t know how deep the stakes go—and I can't afford to let her find out. Protecting her means keeping her close, even if it means risking everything, including my own heart.

Deep Pockets is a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance filled with high-stakes tension, passion, and the thin line between loyalty and love. It’s a journey of tragic pasts, fierce protectiveness, and the realization that sometimes, the heart wants what it has secretly craved all along.

MY REVIEW

Morgan has long held a crush on her sister's best friend, Lance, and it's not easy, because the man drives her nuts, in every way. Now though, she needs a place to stay, and needs a bit of protection, so she's staying with him, and the tension between them is thicker with every day. She shouldn't even be entertaining the thought, because she has other, better, things to worry about, than her attraction to her sister's best friend.


Lance has tried hard to leave his past behind him. He's amassed an empire by being smart, but having Morgan so near him all the time is taking his focus away from where it should be - his business and keeping the danger from his past away. Every day he falls deeper for her even knowing he's not good for her, and he just might be on the verge of something beautiful if he can continue to keep the danger at bay.

I have been waiting for Morgan and Lance's story since her sister Gwen and Atticus' story (Kings of the Boardroom series), and of course Nana definitely did not disappoint. Their antagonism thinly, ok, not at all, disguised their real feelings for each other, and their snark was top notch wit. I wasn't expecting the danger and the intrigue that his past brought, though, and it hurt at the end when the inevitable cliffhanger happened and they left things the way they did, because of that danger. I have faith in Nana, that she'll find a way to get them out of the mess they're in, and assuage my impatience for the next installment, High Stakes.

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