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Reading Order - Kingdom Duet
Rina Kent
💕 Aurora Harper & Jonathan King
Jonathan King's duet, Aiden's father and the most elegant villain in the Rinaverse. Aurora Harper comes back to London to save her company and ends up declaring war on the last man she should, her sister Alicia's widower, much older than her and one of the most powerful businessmen in England. He is cold, calculating and used to everyone bending the knee, she is the daughter of a serial killer who rebuilt herself from scratch and has zero intention of being conquered. Between mysterious recordings from her dead sister, family secrets and chemistry that burns, they wage a war where nobody plays fair. Age gap, forbidden love and a king who finally finds his queen.
Reading style · Strict order
Read strictly in this order — the books connect directly.
Editor's note: Strict order, no way around it. The best place to start is Rule of a Kingdom, the short prequel of about 40 pages that introduces Jonathan and sets everything up for Aurora to step onto the stage. Then comes Reign of a King, which ends on a cliffhanger, and Rise of a Queen picks up right there to close the story with a HEA. None of the three works on its own. The prequel is a download from the author's website, it is not sold in stores. The duet is a Royal Elite spin-off: Jonathan is Aiden's dad and the story kicks off at Aiden and Elsa's wedding, so it carries spoilers for that series. You can read it without having read Royal Elite, but it hits so much harder if you already know the Kings. It belongs to the Rinaverse, Rina Kent's shared universe.
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#0.5Rule of a Kingdom
Rina Kent
💕 Aurora Harper & Jonathan King
His kingdom, his rules. Jonathan King is known as ruthless, brutal and heartless, and none of it is an exaggeration. To him, power is a chessboard and people are pieces he moves however he pleases. He may look like a refined gentleman, but he knows perfectly well he is the villain of this story, and that everyone who defies him ends up on their knees. Her included. A short prequel to the duet, about 40 pages that introduce Jonathan before Aurora crosses his path again.
⚠ Content warnings
Short prequel novella. Villain hero, ruthless and controlling, power dynamics, unhappy marriage, mental illness of a family member, mentions of death and grief. Ends on a cliffhanger that leads straight into Reign of a King.
#1Reign of a King
Rina Kent
★★★★4/5
💕 Aurora Harper & Jonathan King
Jonathan King lives up to his last name, he is powerful, untouchable and corrupt. He is also Aurora's dead sister's widower, and way older than her. When she met him as a little girl, she saw him as a god, and now she has to face that same god to keep him from taking her company. What she does not see coming is that declaring war on the king will cost her everything, because when Jonathan wants something he does not settle for winning, he conquers, and now he has his eyes on her. Her body is not enough, he wants her heart and her soul too. Aurora fights back, but there is no escaping the king in his own kingdom. First part of the duet, ends on a cliffhanger.
⚠ Content warnings
Dark romance with suspense. The heroine's father is a serial killer, with references to his crimes, death of a sister and grief, mental illness of a family member, relationship with her sister's widower, significant age gap, possessive and controlling hero, power dynamics and manipulation, stalking and unsettling messages, explicit sexual content with dominance and spanking. Ends on a cliffhanger.
#2Rise of a Queen
Rina Kent
★★★★4/5
💕 Aurora Harper & Jonathan King
This is Jonathan's kingdom, his territory, and he controls everything and everyone, Aurora included. She walked into his world with no armor and stole his attention without warning, and then she thought she could just disappear. As Aurora's past comes back to haunt her harder than ever, Jonathan makes it clear he is not letting her go, and if he has to go to war to protect her and make her his, blood will be shed. Because wars are not fair, and neither is he. Second part and conclusion of the duet, with a HEA.
⚠ Content warnings
Dark romance with suspense. The heroine's serial killer father returns to the plot, violent attack leaving the heroine injured, the heroine is drugged against her will, death of a sister and grief, mental illness of a family member, possessive and controlling hero, power dynamics, violence, explicit sexual content with dominance. The duet ends with a HEA.
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