π TITLE: THE VENOM WE BLEED
π SERIES: SCORPION KINGS
π GENRE: ENEMIES TO LOVERS | WHY CHOOSE
π 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
'πHπ πEπOπ πE BπEπD' 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:
π₯Enemies to Lovers
π₯Why Choose
π₯Fallen Princess
π₯Psycho Stalker
π₯Hate to Love
π₯Found Family
π₯Forced Proximity
π₯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.
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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.'
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* Teaser used is off the authors facebook page *
