Review: Private Deal (Kings and Rivals #3) by Nana Malone

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They told me he was dead.

I watched them lower an empty coffin into the ground.

Now I'm alone, drowning in a world of enemies I never knew existed. The threats Lance shielded me from have found me, and without his protection, I'm more vulnerable than ever. I have to be strong. I have to survive. Even if my heart feels like it died with him.

But when shadows move in the night and impossible glimpses of a familiar silhouette haunt my dreams, I start to question everything. Am I losing my mind with grief? Or is something far more dangerous at play?

When a stranger with Lance's eyes steps from the darkness, my world tilts off its axis. The man I mourned. The love I lost. The protector I desperately need.

He's here. He's real. And he's very much alive.

The weeks of grief and terror should make me hate him for letting me suffer. Instead, when he pulls me into his arms, when his lips crash against mine, I remember why I fell for him in the first place.

Our enemies think they've won. They think Lance Lakewood is buried and his empire is crumbling. They have no idea what's coming for them.

Private Deal is the explosive conclusion to the Kings and Rivals trilogy—a steamy, high-octane romance where love transcends death, and two hearts fight for a future that seemed impossible.

MY REVIEW

Morgan spiraled when she thought Lance was gone. Her grief was so much that she almost wasted away. Luckily fate had something different in mind for this amazing couple, and they were able to finally be together. But there was his past to deal with, and it would not be easy to confront and overcome all the darkness coming for them.

Whew, the twists and turns of Morgan and Lance's story - so freaking good! Throughout this whole trilogy, Lance's past has been either lurking with menace in the background or aggressively right in front of them. And here in Private Deal, that past is finally, finally put to rest, but only after Nana puts the two of them and their families through the absolute wringer. The intensity, the suspense, and their physical and more importantly, emotional, connection ramp up and strengthen to the point that I was on the edge waiting for the inevitable blowup, and when it came, whoa...but the way their conclusion wraps up is pretty spectacular. I, as I usually do, love this couple. Their beautiful connection, the way it deepens with time, and the way Lance confronts his past, puts it truly in his past, and is able to create his own found family unit, is beautiful. I'm looking forward to Micah's story next, and if I'm lucky, at some point, Hector's too!