Shaz Bostwick’s personal views and business ethics collide when Camilla Gibson walks into his office, seeking his help. The treatment her daughter needs is available in Chicago, but Camilla is almost out of time and has several issues working against her. Raised as an immigrant, Shaz knows the heartache of family separation firsthand. In a race against the clock and the authorities, he calls in … the authorities, he calls in favors but receives a disturbing offer. Let baby Ayanna slip through the cracks in exchange for a handsome reward. Fed up with politicians and businessmen with too much money and too little scruples, Shaz and his fellow Kings of the Castle band together to stem the flow of illegal adoptions, while they solve the mystery of who wants their mentor dead.
Camilla Gibson has traveled the world in her capacity as an adventurer, sometime model, and blogging celebrity. In her eyes, the charming, but tough lawyer is her last resort before deportation. Shaz is smart and tenacious, with renowned negotiating skills and a reputation for making a way when there seems to be none.
If she can get past the biggest crisis in her life, then maybe the spark of attraction that sizzles between them will develop into something magical.
ABOUT THE KINGS OF THE CASTLE SERIES
Each King book is a standalone, NO cliffhangers
USA Today, New York Times, and National Bestselling Authors work together to provide you with a world you’ll never want to leave. The Castle.
Fate made them brothers, but protecting the Castle, each other, and the women they love, will make them Kings. Their combined efforts to find the current Castle members responsible for the attempt on their mentor’s life, is the beginning of dangerous challenges that will alter the path of their lives forever.
These powerful men, unexpectedly brought together by their pasts and current circumstances, will become a force to be reckoned with.
Book 1 – Kings of the Castle (the introduction to the series)
Book 2 – King of Chatham
Book 3 – King of Evanston
Book 4 – King of Devon
Book 5 – King of Morgan Park
Book 6 – King of South Shore
Book 7 – King of Lincoln Park
Book 8 – King of Hyde Park
Book 9 – King of Lawndale
“These men are highly intelligent without being arrogant, rude, condescending, or elitist; they’re compassionate and balanced in ways that make them admirable and made me want more of them.” – Brynette T, Goodreads
DON’T MISS the hot new standalone series, Knights of the Castle. The Kings of the Castle made them family, but the Knights will transform the world.
Book 1 – King of Durabia
Book 2 – Knight of Bronzeville
Book 3 – Knight of South Holland
Book 4 – Lady of Jeffrey Manor
Book 5 – Knight of Grand Crossing
Book 6 – Knight of Paradise Island
Book 7 – Knight of Irondale
Book 8 – Knight of Birmingham
Book 9 – Knight of Penn Quartermore
This Story Right Here. A Mother trying to Stop her daughter from being Illegally Adopted. The father of the child had a gambling problem and used his daughter for leverage to pay his debts. There is a Race against time due to her Visa Expiring. Coming from Jamaica back and forth for doctor appointments and fighting to keep her daughter while the daughter needs a Surgery to Save her Life. A Dirty Lawyer wants the baby for his wife and the father lied to make it happen. In Comes One of the Kings of the Castle Shaz. A Tall Dark Loc-wearing scrumptious Attorney and friend of the mother’s aunt. He comes down to the restaurant everyday to get his fill of oxtails, plantains, beans, Rice etc, and the story is enriched by the Jamaican Culture with the dialects and sayings of the Islands.
Meanwhile, nine men including Shaz, are together due to an assassination attempt on their Mentor. They are asked to restore The Castle organization back to its Humanitarian origins. Later, finding out Current Board Member before the nine men came along are corrupt and the board members are using the Castle as a front for horrible deeds. Shaz and his brothers jump in, not Knowing that it’s connected to his Case and Love Interest as well. He needs his Brothers to help him keep his Love and her daughter Safe. Meanwhile, dealing with his own family Drama of an older Brother that doesn’t want to take over family construction business. After Several confrontations with his parents and Brothers, it all comes to light. Excellent Read. Just Hold On! It’s Good
This book # 3 in the Kings Of The Castle.
Each book adds more to the Kings.
Shaz Bostwick is a immigration lawyer and he meets Camilla Gibson is a model and a blogger with child who comes to Chicago because her daughter Ayanna is in need of cardiac surgery. Camilla’s aunt introduces her to Shaz and they both like what they see in each other. Camilla needs Shaz’s help but she wants to do things her way. Ayanna is caught up in illegal adoption scheme which is one of many illegal things that are going on at the castle. Camilla’s ex is a big gambler and has put baby Ayanna up for adoption without Camilla’s consent and it is going to take all of the kings to put the heads of this illegal baby adoption ring.
Kings Of The Castle keeps getting better and better. On to read book # 4 “King Of Devon”.
Shaz is so Hott. Loved this book. Camilla was in the US trying to get surgery for her daughter who had a heart ailment. Corrupt men who ran sex trafficking out of the Castle we’re trying to steal Camilla’s baby by way of illegal adoption/kidnapping along with holding under age girls against their will. You will have to read the book to get more information. So far all of the Kings of the Castle books are off the chain. I wish it was a series.
Brilliantly written! The characters are believable and the story grips you from the very beginning. Oh, I cannot tell a lie. I bought simply because of the cover. Yes, I did. But I read it because of the story! Wonderfully written!
This book was phew a little tough at times because it deals with things that we hope never to encounter in our lives but it does exist and it does effect us. Hearing about sex trafficking just about kills me and now we throw illegal adoption and it was touch and go at times. There was a lot of disagreements it seems like the two main characters had a problem with just about everyone.
rcvd an ARc at no cost to author..(netgalley) voluntarily reviewed with my own thoughts and opinions.
3.5 stars–KING OF EVANSTON by J.L. Campbell is the third instalment in the multi-authored/ multi-cultural contemporary, adult KINGS OF THE CASTLE, erotic, romantic suspense series focusing on nine ‘brothers’ from the streets of Chicago (Vikkas, Reno, Shaz, Jai, Daron, Kaleb, Grant, Dro and Dwayne) mentored and taught by the mysterious Khalil Germaine at the exclusive Macro International Magnet School in Chicago. This is attorney Shastra ‘Shaz’ Bostwick, and single mother Camilla Gibson’s story line. KING OF EVANSTON can be read as a stand alone but I recommend reading book one KINGS OF THE CASTLE for backstory and history between Shaz and Camilla.
SOME BACKGROUND: Nine men, all ‘brother’s in arms from the mean streets of Chicago, have been called together by their former mentor Khalil Germaine in an effort to re-make and reclaim the restrictive and exclusionary THE CASTLE, an institution now involved with illegal activities including drug trafficking, human sexual slavery and more.
Told from third person perspective (Shaz Bostwick) KING OF EVANSTON focuses on the search for an illegal adoption and child slavery ring. Four years earlier, while on vacation in America, Jamaican born Camilla Gibson got pregnant by a man who wanted nothing to do with our story line heroine. Fast forward to present day wherein Camilla has returned to the States, along with her daughter Ayanna, who needs emergency surgery to correct a heart defect but all does not go according to plan when the child’s father offers up his estranged young daughter to the highest bidder. Enter attorney and King of Evanston Shastra ‘Shaz’ Bostwick, and the man with whom Camilla will fall in love. What ensues is the building relationship between Shaz and Camilla, and the potential fall-out as numerous attempts to abduct Ayanna place the child in dangerous and precarious position.
KING OF EVANSTON focuses on the imprisonment of young women, and the illegal procurement and adoption of their newborn children. As the nine Kings of the Castle begin an investigation of their own, all clues lead back to The Castle, and the previous and current members who operated a series of illegal endeavors.
The relationship between Shaz and Camilla begins as a business association that soon turns into something more. Shaz finds himself attracted to a woman whose time in the States is coming to an end, an end that places Ayanna between the two worlds of her mother and her nefarious father. Camilla Gibson is drawn to the enigmatic and powerful attorney Shastra Bostwick but Camilla’s first priority is the protection and safety of her ailing daughter. The $ex scenes are intmate, passionate and limited but saying that I did not feel any palpable sexual heat or attraction, in fact, I felt little to nothing in the way of love or romance, and in this, I struggled to enjoy the overall story.
KING OF EVANSTON is a dramatic story of family, betrayal, illegal activities and tragic circumstances that fulfils another happily ever after for one of the Kings of the Castle.
J. L. Campbell gives a wonderful slice of romantic suspense with a touch of Jamaican flare.