The Fearless King is book two in The Kings series by Katee Robert. This novel is a contemporary romance with a suspense twist.

Journey King is shareholder and COO of her family’s business, Kingdom Corp. She’s been doing everything she can to avoid Frank Evans and any appearance of impropriety. Surprisingly, Journey finds herself in need of Frank’s assistance when her estranged father makes an unexpected attempt to take over the company she and her siblings have worked hard to make profitable.

Frank Evans is a club owner and real estate mogul. He has made it his business to avoid the King family, with the exception of his best friend and Journey’s cousin, Beckett. Frank finds himself inexplicably drawn to Journey’s unusually vulnerable demeanor and agrees to help her retain her business.

The two aren’t enemies but they certainly aren’t friends. When circumstances force them into close contact with each other, sparks ignite and threaten to consume them both.

Robert has done a fair job of making the novel a standalone, but there are instances when additional background details would have made the storyline clearer. Despite the lack of background, the characters are fully developed and interesting. I liked the cunning manner the author used to introduce the touchy subject of the interracial relationship between Frank and Journey. The ending was perfect for the continuation of the series.

The Fearless King is an entertaining read and I give it 5 out of 5 stars. Fans of romantic suspense will enjoy this book. The explicit sex scenes may be a turnoff for some readers.

My thanks to Forever (Grand Central Publishing) and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advance copy of this book. However, the opinions expressed in this review are 100% mine and mine alone.

The Fearless Kings, book two in Katee Robert’s series The Kings, will leave you breathless and on the edge of your seat throughout the entire book. When the King family comes back to Houston, he causes all hell to break loose, determined to take over Kingdom Corporation and hurting whoever gets in his way. This includes any child of his, especially Journey. Not about to let his evil parent grasp control of the business, Journey seeks out the help on the one man in Houston she believes she can count on, Frank Evans. Together, they know they can stop the madness her father is creating. With their attraction and love for each other growing, they both find themselves in danger and they will do nothing to keep each other from harm.
Katee Robert can write a story full of adventure, suspense, and romance, keeping you enthralled from the first page. Truly a five star read.

At this point, it's safe to say that Katee Robert is one of my go-to romance authors. I can always expect to deliver swoony and steamy reads with a good dose of complicated family dynamics. The Fearless King was another one of her books that I just about inhaled. It was just so good!

We met both Journey and Frank in the first The Kings book, The Last King. I was intrigued by their dynamic from the very beginning and was pretty much dying to see how their relationship would unfold. It was so much better than I expected. Both Journey and Frank were amazing characters. I loved how Journey was this perfect blend of strong and vulnerable. Yes, she had a tough exterior, but she also had the vulnerable moments that made her all the more real. In the previous book we got to see her cool and confident persona and here we learn more about how she became the woman she was. Her life begins to unravel when an unpleasant character from her past, her horrid father, shows up again and tries to torment her. Through it all, Journey tried to fight her fears for the sake of her loved ones, and if that's not admirable, I don't know what is! I liked Journey so much that I was rooting for her and her happiness. Frank was as much of a layered character as Journey. He was so attractive with his self-assured and inscrutable personality. I was a total goner when he began to show his softer side to Journey. All I'm going to say about Frank is that he is very very sexy. ;)

The dynamic between Journey and Frank was blistering hot. These two had such incredible chemistry, which wasn't a surprise to me because Katee Robert excels at this. Their relationship started off as a fake-relationship so that Frank can help Journey with her horrid dad situation, but as we all know with romance books, entering a fake relationship always means that the couple can't resist each other. Can I also take a minute to talk about how good the sexy times were? PHEW! My face definitely got warm a few times! ;) The plot was interesting and intense too in The Fearless King. Journey's father wreaks havoc in everyone's lives, including her siblings, and did I hate that guy or what? He was definitely a scumbag who elicited strong feelings of rage from me! We get to meet the rest of the King siblings in this book too and OMG, I want ALL of them to have their books. They are all just so intense and I want these kids to find their HEAs!

As always, Katee Robert delivered a smoking hot, passionate and exciting romance read with The Fearless King. I'll be eagerly awaiting her next read! In the meantime, you all should definitely read her books! :)

This is supposed to be a standalone, but I felt like it was missing a huge amount of backstory. However, the chemistry between the two leads was fantastic. I haven’t read the first in this series, but I will check it out.

Journey can run a company like no one else but when her father shows up, all her insecurities return. Frank deals in information and real estate. When Journey comes to him for help with her father, they decide to “ pretend date “. Frank has always been the one to save people, so it seems strange to have someone trying to save him. Journey got him into this mess and she’ll do anything to get him out of it.
I know it’s short but I didn’t want to give too much away. Sex and action. Journey realizes she’s stronger than she thinks and Frank wants to be the one to show her. Excellent story and cannot wait for the next one.
* Voluntarily read and reviewed this for NetGalley *

This book has all the elements of a great romance book that I've come to expect from this author. If you've read any of her other works, you know that there is usually a bit of suspense intertwined in the storyline. I've noticed some reviews say they tried to read this as a stand alone- I wouldn't recommend that. This is the second in a series, and while each duo has their own story to tell, the background information just builds on the developments and makes it a fuller journey (no pun intended) for the readers. In fact, go back and read her O'Malley series if you haven't already. I haven't had a customer yet who didn't enjoy the books when I've recommended them, and have a wait list for all upcoming books including this one. I have no doubt they will love this just as much.

This book was hard for me to read because I couldn’t connect to these characters. I feel like I’m missing some key information early on to help me connect and understand this story. I spent so much time lost and trying to figure out what was going on that I felt frustrated reading this book.
It was quite the journey that Frank and Journey went on in this book. Something felt a little off once we started getting the POV from others it just added to my confusion. I didn’t know where it was going.

In The Fearless King we get Frank and Journey's story. We met both of them in book one as side characters. There is some major family drama going on that connects both couples and many of the side characters.

After Beckett forced Journey's mom to leave the state in book one, that left her and her siblings open for their father, Elliott to come back and try to take their company from them. It isn't as simple as a hostile takeover, Elliott is a monster and abused all four of his children when they were young.

It's taken years for Journey to grow strong and feel like less of a victim, but all it takes is for her father to come back into her lives to take her right back to the abuse she suffered as a child. The only person she feels she can turn to is the last person she ever thought she would need.

Frank has become a man of power after that no one wants to mess with. He has his own past that have molded him into this new, harder man that he has become. Journey is dangerous to him since he can't seem to stifle his fascination with her. When she comes to him for help, there is no way he can say no but not without adding a few strings to the deal.

Both books 1 and 2 have that opposites attract appeal to them. Journey and Frank can't be more opposite in personality. Their chemistry was pretty off the charts. I'm a big fan of a strong Alpha character who protects and Frank is the very definition of these traits.

A lot of damage was done to the King family by the time all was said and done. There is so much the author can go in the next book in the series and I think I know who the next foe will be. I can't wait to find out if I'm right.

4 1/2 STARS!

Heart-pounding intrigue! I didn't know if it was possible for Katee Robert to match the raw potency of her The O'Malleys series, but she's blowing me away once again with The Kings. Beckett's story grabbed my heart in Book One and now she's back with a powerful follow-up that has Journey reaching out to the one man she never thought she'd go to for help ... and it's delicious! Intense emotion and danger around every corner, characters that keep you on your toes keeping up with them, and top-notch heat and suspense. I think the backstory from Book One could have been woven in a little stronger in order to make it a true stand-alone for those who pick it up here, but overall a really phenomenal read to kick off this gal's 2019!

Journey King is a cool cucumber when it comes to getting things done in the business world, but the one person who can bring her to her knees in defeat has returned to Houston intent on making a play on the company. She knows Frank should be an enemy of sorts since he was instrumental in getting her mother ousted from the company, but he's is a powerful man and possible the only one that can put a stop to the train wreck her father intends to unravel.

Frank Evans knows the rival side of the King family opposite his best friend Beckett should be off-limits now that things have settled down, but he can tell there's something to the fact that Journey is seeking him out. The fear in her eyes isn't normal, and he can't turn his back on that in the end. His pretending to be her boyfriend is the easiest way to get him close to Kingdom Corp and her family, but along the way the fake starts to feel all too real when the danger starts to overwhelm them!

Reading ‘The Fearless King’ was sort of bizarre, because it felt like a very well-written drama that I wanted more of, but couldn’t understand because I was tossed straight into the middle of a series at say, episode 143 with a backlog of events that I’d already forgotten about having read the first book a long time ago. As a result, this hardly felt like a standalone with a sorely-lacking backstory that I had to spend quite a bit of time figuring out, right up until the halfway point of the book.

Pare down the layers however, and Frank and Journey’s story is relatively simple at the heart of it, minus the family drama taking place over corporate talk, hostile takeovers and real estate/business territory being muscled in on. He’s her white knight (sort of), she’s his protection project when her abusive father returns to overthrow all her family had worked for. Throw in a fake dating scenario until the emotions turn real, then pad it with even more complicated business and family networks and that’s what ’The Fearless King’ really is about. Basically, if you’re into romantic fiction that deals with corporate manoeuvring, manipulation and backstabbing, then this pretty much takes these themes and runs with them.

I’ve always liked Katee Robert’s compelling writing and this book is just another reminder why.

But there were some things that nagged at me: the insertion of a secondary character’s POV added along with Frank’s and Journey’s that felt out of place, with the background of a family pitted against each other to the extent that some characters seemed as though they were cut out of a Disney villain storyboard. Essentially Robert writes about the scarred, ugly side of powerful families so screwed up and so hungry for power and so…redemption-less and that my reading flagged a little when I got to the middle of it.

Still, Robert’s protagonists surprised me at several turns; Frank/Journey don’t entirely conform to stereotypes even if they sort of stumble into accidental heroism, where it doesn’t take a mountain to recognise that unnamed emotion called love. I can’t quite guess where Robert’s going with this whole tangled mess but it’s looking to be quite a journey—pun unintended.