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Queen Move

Kennedy Ryan · All the King's Men #3

300 pagescontemporary romance
(12k)Steamy

Childhood best friends reunite decades later — but the man she's always loved is taken.

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The boy who always felt like mine is now the man I can't have... Dig a little and you'll find photos of me in the bathtub with Ezra Stern.Get your mind out of the gutter. We were six months old.Pry and one of us might confess we saved our first kiss for each other. The most clumsy, wet, sloppy . . . spectacular thirty seconds of my adolescence.Get into our business and you'll see two families, closer than blood, torn apart in an instant.Twenty years later, my "awkward duckling" best friend from childhood, the boy no one noticed, is a man no one can ignore.Finer. Fiercer. Smarter. Taken.Tell me it's wrong. Tell me the boy who always felt like mine is now the man I can’t have. When we find each other again, everything stands in our way--secrets, lies, promises.But we didn't come this far to give up now. And I know just the move to make if I want to make him mine.

All the King's Men series

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