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📚 TITLE: THE VENOM WE BLEED
📚 SERIES: SCORPION KINGS
📚 GENRE: ENEMIES TO LOVERS | WHY CHOOSE
📚 PUBLICATION: MARCH 14TH, 2025
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Synopsis
Silverwood Public: Home to liars, thieves, and worst of all … the Scorpion Kings.
I was the Queen at my old school.
Born into wealth and power.
Now, thanks to my family’s deceit, I’m a pariah and a target.
I’ve got no friends. No parents. No money. And no fucks left to give.
If the Scorpion Kings want to damage the new outcast of Silverwood, they’ll soon learn that anyone can be a killer if you give them the right incentive.
I was the Queen at my old school.
Born into wealth and power.
Now, thanks to my family’s deceit, I’m a pariah and a target.
I’ve got no friends. No parents. No money. And no fucks left to give.
If the Scorpion Kings want to damage the new outcast of Silverwood, they’ll soon learn that anyone can be a killer if you give them the right incentive.
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My Review
'𝐓H𝐄 𝐕E𝐍O𝐌 𝐖E B𝐋E𝐄D' Is the first full length enemies to lovers romance book in the 'Scorpion Kings' series by author Lucy Smoke.
At first as soon as that cover started making the rounds that was my deciding factor of adding it on here, then that synopsis sealed the deal. Once live, I dived in, and was sucked in straight away.
What to expect:
🔥Enemies to Lovers
🔥Why Choose
🔥Fallen Princess
🔥Psycho Stalker
🔥Hate to Love
🔥Found Family
🔥Forced Proximity
🔥Slow burn
This has so much to unpack, on Juliet's birthday everything turned to shit, first it started with catching her best friend and boyfriend in the act, then if that wasn’t bad enough arriving home she sees her father carted off in handcuffs.
And just like that her world imploded. Not even her mother stayed around, she took off before the ink was dry in a letter to Juliet as she ditched town.
“𝙰 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗 𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚠𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚏 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚋𝚢 𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚣𝚣𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚘𝚢𝚎𝚍.”
From riches to rags. From private school, to public school. The princess has fallen off her throne and thrust into an unknown world where everyone is fighting to survive.
The sins of the father places a target on her back. Her very first day at her new school has her visiting the principal's office due to an altercation between her and one of the boys floozy’s. Like a pack of raging animals the whole school hates Juliet. Everyone in this town lost something because of her father. If she can lay low for a year until she graduates she can leave this town and its people behind her.
The sins of the father places a target on her back. Her very first day at her new school has her visiting the principal's office due to an altercation between her and one of the boys floozy’s. Like a pack of raging animals the whole school hates Juliet. Everyone in this town lost something because of her father. If she can lay low for a year until she graduates she can leave this town and its people behind her.

You can't help but feel for Juliet, everyone she loves had abandoned her, her father, mother, her friends, with noone on her side fighting in her corner she knows to survive in this world she has to be stronger than ever before, to show weakness will be her demise. With a backbone made of steel our girl is a fighter, she tougher than anyone gave her credit for. The last thing she wants though is to come under the radar of the boys who rule the school Nolan, Gio and Lex known as the 'Scorpion Kings.'
“𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢'𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚝. 𝙳𝚛𝚞𝚐𝚜. 𝙶𝚞𝚗𝚜. 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚕. 𝚁𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚎. 𝙳𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢'𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚕, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚙𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚛𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚘 𝚅𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚜-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚂𝚒𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚢 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚢.”
* Teaser used is off the authors facebook page *
