Logan Crowne needs one year from Ella.Twelve months living in his house, holding his hand, wearing his ring on her finger, and in exchange, she’ll get her father’s company in the divorce settlement.They have one year to convince his skeptical parents that they’re happily in love, and he’s settled enough to run Crowne Industries.Ella wants the company badly enough to live with a man who will never … who will never love her. She’ll sleep in his room and kiss him for show.
Her heart may melt whenever he’s around, and his touch may ignite a fire inside her, but surrender will break her heart.
She’s sure she can last a year without giving him her body.
She’s wrong.
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Lord Jesus That was some sexy, dirty, sinfully delicious reading! Lol Logan is just he’s an alpha god who you would like to smack and screw at the same time! Elle is sassy and spirited and her wit is hilarious! These two find themselves wrapped up in a marriage of convenience for their own personal reasons and CD Reiss writes some epic chemistry between then that will leave you wanting more!!
Logan is a workaholic. He is driven to run his father’s company and will not lose control to his older brother. Ever since he was offered to train as his father’s replacement at retirement, Logan has kept his focus on doing a fantastic job.
This is why when his father breaks the news to him that he wants Logan married before he will consider retirement, the shock of the announcement has him reeling. In the meantime, his father has asked him to take a few months off to learn to enjoy life. And to make matters worse, he has asked his older brother Byron to run the company in the interim.
Ella becomes the perfect fake wife to be as Logan reconnects with her and proposes a deal to her. Ella needs to take over her father’s company. Ever since he died, her stepmother has driven the business to the ground. This was a deathbed promise to her father – not to let his legacy die with him. In order to do this, she needs lots of money and Logan is loaded!
This is an interesting and amusing story of two people who are complete opposites. Where Logan is a stuff shirt, Ella is a free spirited artist. What could they possibly have in common other than lust?
I am voluntarily reviewing this book. Thanks to the author for sharing a copy with me.
A fake marriage in the Crowne family. Start with Daddy Crowne giving ultimatum to Logan to lighten up, have a life, for Crowne bussiness isn’t everything in life. That he need to find his own happiness.
The competitive, workaholic, self assure Logan would not let dear old brother Byron take control of Crowne after all he done for the company. He have a plan. Simply A fake marriage with another house hold name with need as big as his to use if time needed to make sure all goes well in his benefits.
The thing is, he never meet an anomaly like Elle Papillion. The daughter of late Papillion fashion king who was over thrown by her step mother.
Elle is a free spirit. She’s tough and independent. For Logan the straight lace, she’s a fresh air. Something that he doesn’t need.
There goes the pull and push of two strong minded personality.
The steam is off the chart.
Their fear is the one and the same.
There’s no Alpha dominant with damsel in distress here.
There’s only two stubborn who’s afraid to admit their feelings until it’s a step to too late.
I love how the author write. Deep in simple story line. She makes me see there’s always truth hidden behind smoke and mirrors. To let your self vulnerable enough to feel.
Every time I read a CD Reiss book, I walk away wishing there was just one more page to read, one more moment to spend with her characters.
One of the things I appreciated the most about Crowne of Lies is Reiss’s consistency with her characters. You know, without hesitation, that Logan and Byron are part of a family, raised by the same parents. They have learned from watching their father and mother what they need to do to create a happy, contented, mutually supportive marriage.
They learn from their mistakes.
I admit I worried for Logan. He is so deeply who he is that I didn’t think he would get out of his own way. But this is CD Reiss, and she crafted a character who learns how to let go of what holds him back, even if it means confronting things about himself that hurt him.
In Ella, Logan has the perfect partner. Their marriage of convenience works for them, at least on the surface. I loved (and I do mean LOVED) Ella’s struggle to find her autonomy and her purpose. She struggles. She has this hazy idea of what she’s supposed to do, but she can’t quite grasp onto it. Misconceptions get in the way and hinder her. In some ways, Ella’s path to discovering who she’s meant to be is far more fraught than Logan’s.
The sex scenes will make you squeeze your thighs so tight, you’ll have bruises. Yet it’s the love story that squeezes your heart. You will read some pages while holding your breath, worried for what Reiss will do to Logan and Ella. When you aren’t swooning all the swoons, you might be shedding a tear or two.
I can’t wait for the next book in this series. I need more Crowne brothers. And if Crowne of Lies is any indication, I’ll also get to check in with Byron, Logan, Olivia, and Ella. I’ll get that extra moment with them.
Whenever I start a book by CD Reiss, I know a few things: expect the unexpected: complex characters whose internal reflections and actions will capture my attention thoroughly: beautiful prose with language that is delicious to read…and, yet again, this is exactly what I got. One completely enthralling read in which the standard tropes are upended and remade, a complex love story with characters that are so interesting, so demanding of my attention that I can only wish for the words to express my growing and lasting affection for them.
Ella and Logan have a fight on their hands: to disguise lies: to open their eyes to their imperfections and those of others: to realise that those imperfections are what make us human and, in most cases, lovable.
Lies upon lies. Those we tell ourselves and those that others tell us, whether through omission or one of the many other reasons we feel they need to be told.
This is a love story, one of personal growth told with intensity, wit and humour. If you haven’t guessed it already, I loved every single well chosen and well placed word, loved the other characters who themselves reveal their different faces, and that end. Gorgeous.
Loved it!
I want to see a house smashed apart by a JCB digger to reveal thousands and thousands of tiny crystals inside. I really, really need to see it.
I want an original Papillion couture gown. Most of all I want Logan Crowne to call me his star with his gruff voice.
Fake marriage books are one of my favourite tropes. The suppressed desire. The sexual tension. Crowne of Lies oozes with it. Beautiful, free spirited, artistic Ella Papillion is the opposite of the hard working Logan but she slips into the role of slipper giving, fuzzy socked wife so easily. Until the lies creep out.
They are perfectly imperfectly in love before they know it.
“Time could only be measured in stars while he kissed me. I wanted for nothing and felt nothing but his lips and his hands. I thought not in words, but in dots of moments strewn across the sky and connected by his touch.”
“Let’s hurt each other. Let’s hurt each other so bad we walk out of this thing on broken legs, screaming in pain. When it’s over, I want to be praying for death and wishing I could do it all over again.”
“Happiness didn’t come neatly packaged. It found you in the moments between tears and laughter, in the fights and brokenness, in the support and in the bond with someone who loved you as broken as you were and as whole as you’d become.”
CD Reiss writes fantastic family sagas. Can’t wait for the secretive Dante’s story.
Wow!! Business in the boardroom and a freak in the sheets…Logan and Ella may have a fake relationship, but their story is full of passion, emotion, and steamy heat.
Logan is the second child in the Crowne family, but he has been running the Crowne empire for quite some time. However, when his father (who still is a major shareholder in the company) lays down an ultimatum that he has to take time off and get married Logan is less than pleased. Logan sets out to find a partner that would work out better in a business deal vs. someone to love in a marriage so he can get back to work as soon as possible and not be tied to someone with all the messy emotional entanglements that relationships require.
When Logan finds Ella, a woman looking to turn around her father’s company she is the perfect fit. She too needs someone to help her out of the hole she’s in and isn’t looking for an emotional attachment either.
Their plan seems perfect, their goals both seem in line, however neither one expected to feel the chemistry explode between them which only makes the months they will spend together a form of torture or exquisite bliss. It just depends on how they look at the risk they are willing to take and if they can keep themselves from getting attached.
Perhaps as a second child myself, I really understood Logan’s sense of proving himself, his need for perfection, and his overwhelming desire to outshine his older brother. I know from asking my own older brother if he knew of the competition we had going on sometimes and he honestly never knew I was trying to win at a game that he never knew we were playing. Logan gives examples of trying to best his older brother and that connection was very palpable.
Then we have Ella, for all appearances, she is the opposite of Logan. An artist, a rebel, a rule breaker. However, we find out that she may be more like him and also that underneath the stiff, uppercrust Logan, he might also be a little like her and that combination is what makes them an explosive couple. That passion also might be what kills their relationship, but you need to read the story to find out what happens.
Interconnected with Iron Crowne, but you can jump into Crowne of Lies if this is your first taste in this world. Although I’d highly recommend reading Byron’s story just so you understand some of the structure of the Crowne world and perhaps some of the barbs the family tosses out at each other, but it isn’t necessary to enjoy Logan’s story.
I couldn’t wait to read Logan’s story after I first heard of him in Iron Crowne, fake fiance can really be interesting. I thought the beginning was interesting…your dad telling you that you have to get married. Logan and Ella were certainly fun to read. I also really love this cover too!
I received this book at my request and have voluntarily left this unbiased review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
LOVE love loooove this. CD Reiss writes stories so beautifully that it makes me wish my reviews could express my love for them in a better way. But I’m just me, so here are my thoughts….
The best word to describe Crowne of Lies is tension. You feel it throughout all the pages. I mean, it starts out with Logan already in a tricky spot, which we all saw coming at the end of book one, but if not, you could read this on it’s own and not be lost. Then of course there’s the marriage of convenience (that never ends up being convenient) between him and Ella. And she’s in her own whirlwind in life right now.
I love how the big talks were like conversation in motion. You could feel it, envision it, experience it. I love how they both had to lose their rose colored glasses and discover truths about their families, their lives, and their desires. And I loved the end.
Well these Crowne family stories are my cup of tea. I didn’t think Logan and Ella would become my favorite so far but they did. I absolutely adored Logan, having all his structured life panned out and then having it all ripped from underneath was a refreshing read. I am in love with the series and I can’t wait to read the next one, I so want to see what happens next. A phenomenal 5 star read!
Absolutely loved Logan and Ella, what starts out as a business arrangement quickly becomes so much more, even though Ella is not what Logan is looking for the attraction burns hot. A fantastic story that sizzles with sexiness, angst, a strong heroine and the sexy alpha billionaire, with the perfect balance of push and pull. Romance at its best!!
I. ADORED. THIS!!!
I mean seriously. Logan!! Yessss!
Ella and Logan… were literally everything.
I love that Ella is not what you’d expect.
And I adored Logan’s mannerisms and how he handled her. How they both cared.
I 1000% recommend!
Cannot wait for The next book in the saga if this family!
CD Reiss