Title: A King Undone
Series: Noble Pleasures #1
Author: Cooper Davis
Genre: Paranormal/Alternate Worlds/ Historical
Length: Novel (254 pages)
Publisher: Samhain Publishing (December 9, 2014)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥4 1/2Hearts
Blurb: Sometimes you have to risk everything, to follow your heart…
In a world where gentlemen openly court and marry fellow noblemen, the threat of scandal still lurks behind every velvet drape for kings and princes. Such has been the fate for King Arend Tollemach, forced to sacrifice his heart on the altar of regal duty.
Now that his wife is dead and his royal obligations are at an end, he’s ready to take an unthinkable risk. King Arend seeks a concubine from Temple Sapphor, a secretive, gated world where he will finally shed his virginity—as least as it pertains to making love to a man.
Julian never thought he’d spend ten years on the temple shelf, passed over again and again. Just when he despairs of ever finding placement in a nobleman’s bed, Arend walks into the temple. A lonely eyed, beautiful king who could easily steal his heart.
Arend discovers he has no problem opening his bed to the exquisite concubine. The problem lies in finding the key to his long-shuttered heart.
Product Warnings
Contains a beautiful, virgin king desperate to bed another man, a concubine who fantasizes about being claimed and revered by a strong monarch, and a sea of scandal set against a sensual, palatial backdrop.
ISBN: 9781619224278
Product Link: https://www.samhainpublishing.com/book/5273/a-king-undone
Reviewer: Shorty
Review: In a time of kings and concubines it is frowned upon any king or noble marrying another man without scandal. Arend had his hopes and dreams taken from him the day he told his father, the king, he betrothed himself to a male prince. Incensed his father demands he marry a female and immediately break off the engagement with the prince. Heartbroken, Arend does as his father orders. Years pass and he is now the king. After his wife passes, he finally gives in to his own wants and brings a male concubine into his palace.
Julian has been passed over many times in the temple. All he wants is to feel loved and needed after so long being alone. His brother sold him to the Temple when he was assaulted and then accused of leading the man on.
Julian seems like an intelligent, smart, strong man who has made the best of the life that was taken from him. Arend seems for all the word a confident man. These two seemed well matched together despite several people trying to them apart.
It really broke my heart at what both Julian and Arend went through when they were younger. No one has the right to sell someone nor do they have the right to demand they marry someone they have no wish to be with simply because of how someone else wants things to be. Everyone deserves to be happy with whatever life they choose to live. Wonderfully written fantastic story that I absolutely enjoyed reading.
Can’t wait to read more in this series.
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