Karina Ashworth is willing to pay any price to be with the man she loves—a notorious fixer and the only man capable of making her walk away from everything she has ever known.But power corrupts the soul too easily, and once Uilleam Runehart has his taste of it, there’s nothing he craves more. And when it comes to what he wants most, there is no line he won’t cross to get it.With secrets plaguing … it.
With secrets plaguing them, and truths becoming harder and harder to tell, the things left unsaid between them might be their ruin.
Merciless.
Shameless.
Remorseless.
How much would you sacrifice to be on top?
From Romantic Suspense Author, London Miller, comes the second book in the Kingmaker Saga following a woman with too many skeletons and the only man capable of unraveling them.
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I love this couple so much, but gaaahhh…knowing something is going to happen doesn’t lessen the impact when it finally comes to fruition. The ending of this book gutted me. I thought I was prepared. I wasn’t. Sniff. However, as much as I enjoyed this installment in THE KINGMAKER SAGA I can’t quite rate it as high as the first book. I found this one to be a little too long and drawn out at times. Most notably the first 25% I found especially slow and hard to get into. However, it did pick up in pace as the story went along.
Now, I am well aware that this saga has A LOT of moving parts to it. Backstories and the recruitment of certain DEN members etc. Uilleam’s rise to ultimate power. His and Karina’s relationship. His relationship with his brother. Karina’s relationship with her sister and mother. It is also going to span several years, so I did try and keep that in mind when I was reading. Alas, it just didn’t quite have the same impact on me as much as the first book did.
However, it was still a cracking good read. This couple has such fantastic chemistry. There are excellent secondary characters. No OW or OM drama. Hot sexy times. Amazing plot and character development. A heartbreaking cliffhanger. It left me excited to see what happens next, so for that reason alone, it gets two thumbs up!
This was book 2 of the King maker Saga and it literally blew me away. I read it three days ago and I’m still thinking about it!! I’m new to London Miller and adding her to “go to authors” list. I’m counting down the days for the third installment of this series!!
I still can’t decide whether to sit in the corner and cry or get up and throw the tablet against the wall. The author warned that it would hurt. But I did’t think that London Miller would put a chainsaw into my heart. White Rabbit: The Fall has a very adequate title. Because as a reader of this masterpiece I fell. I fell and I can’t get up…
This part is full of ups and downs in Uilleam and Karina’s relationship. On the one hand, we have here an unearthly chemistry connecting these two and on the other hand at times as the reader I have undermined the strength of their feelings. Especially when it comes to Uilleam. His character confused me so much that I can’t decide if I love him or hate him… I suppose both. In this part we also experience a series of flashbacks in which we return to the Den Mercenaries series.
Power. Violence. Lies. Secrets. Indescribable lust. This book contains it all and so much more!
This book is genius because together with the main characters I experienced a total rollecoaster of emotions. And the ending… it just broke me down. London Miller completely destroyed me…
I still can’t wrap my head around it and I finished this read a few days ago.
Just… read this book. It will reveal all your emotions. I haven’t experienced such a catharsis in a long time…
Oh Uilleam, Uilleam. Just like Karina do I love or hate you?
Without a shadow of a doubt I love Karina, Uilleam I have a more love-hate relationship with, though both characters ‘speak’ to me and I feel their emotion, their connection and their explosive love. Despite knowing where the story was going to end (from the Den books) the journey to reach that point was totally new. There were actions and reactions that brought me close to tears, but those final few chapters – they broke me. I think I possibly cried as many tears as the characters did.
The games, the twists, the manipulations are just mind blowing. On the surface the plot seems so simple, where actually it is the most complex of patterns, woven from dozens of different threads, all merging together in a way that you don’t see the bigger picture until it is too late. I found myself second and third guessing so many things, and rarely being right on any of them!
After a bit of a slow start, I read it in one sitting, until 1.30a.m., because I simply couldn’t put this down. I was on a a runaway train, speeding towards a catastrophic crash but I didn’t want to get off and I most certainly couldn’t look away.
I started the book, which by the way is not a stand alone and needs to be read after White Rabbit: The Rise , wanting a HEA for Uilleam and Karina. Even knowing some of where the story was heading there palpable love made me yearn desperately for this. By the 3/4 point I was a little peeved with Uilleam, by the 4/5ths mark I decided he didn’t deserve Karina and could rot in a hell of his own making. But the end, oh the end *snivel, sob, wail* – made me waver just a fraction. Lets just say London Miller is going to have to do some persuading to redeem this man, though if there’s an author who can do that, it is her.
You can read The Kingmaker Saga without having read the Den of Mercenaries series. There are events in those books that are pertinent to this series but one of the things I really love is that these events are explained again, but with a different perspective and background. This means you know some of what will happen, but you don’t know ALL the truths, nor the impact it has on others.
Before I finish I do have to mention how much I love Isla and Skorpion. A sign of a good book is one where side characters demand a book of their own. Skorpion had already got one, though these books are giving me a lot of background to him that I’m sure will give me a whole new insight when I re-read it. Isla also needs her own book(s), she is a woman with one heck of a story to tell.
Uilleam Ruenhart I’m so,so angry at you right now.And I wish to tell you that you deserved every little thing Karina had put you through the Den of Mercenaries series,and so much more(worst)things.
On the other note,this book was so amazing.I just couldn’t put it down once I started it.Uilleam and Karina are more captivating then ever.Their love is beautiful,when they are good and honest with each other.But Uileam is obsessed with power,his dream,his mercenaries that he payed very little attention to his Karina.And his lies ultimately had costed him a great deal.I don’t want to sound cruel or anything,BUT he deserved what he got in the end.Karina loved him entirely too much and he just threw that away.Man,you can’t do that.UGHHH I am so angry at him,I can’t even describe how much.
And Karina…She did have secrets of her own,but she was trying really hard for both of them,and London did you really had to put her through that at the end of book.It’s just not fer.I want Uilleam to beg at his knees for her forgiveness one day and I want her to torture him more than she did in the Den series until he deserves the said forgiveness.London,don’t go light on him.
The plot was amazing,just like the first book.I loved all the details,I loved that we found out some more about are favorite mercenaries.I don’t want to give away the plot,but know that London can create a great story,with amazing characters that will just make you question everything(mostly your moral compass).I think that this is her best work yet and I can’t wait for the third book(PS:Jackal will make his first appearance *my poor heart won’t make it till June*).
Overall a this is a must read.Definitely forth an entire day that I spent in bed reading it.
Lines were drawn in the sand and sides taken at the conclusion of book 1. Now Karina and Uilleam, the main couple, feel even more connected and cemented as a couple than ever before, despite the secrets and uncertainty that seem to always swirl around them. Trust, however, is a fragile thing. When it is broken, love and devotion come into question.
They may call Uilleam the Kingmaker, but risk taker is more like it, folks. Foolishly thinking business as usual needs to remain the game plan leads to unimaginable, heart breaking consequences for both of them. I have no words to describe the jaw dropping, double punch to the heart cliffhanger ending. Book 3 simply cannot come fast enough. Here’s to hoping it is just around the corner.
Title: The White Rabbit: The Fall, Series: The Kingmaker Saga (Book 2), Author: London Miller, Pages: 434, not a stand-alone (read book 1 first), criminal hero, journalist heroine, very steamy scenes, some violence, to be continued, ends in shocking major cliffhanger.
(I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I was not given any payment or compensation for this review, nor is there any affiliation or relationship between this reviewer and the author/publisher/PR firm.)
WHITE RABBIT: THE FALL (Kingmaker’s Saga Book 2)
by London Miller
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Release Date February 22
Having read The Den of Mercenaries series I know the gist of Uilleam and Karina’s history. To watch it all play out like a movie, frame by frame, shot by shot, is extraordinary. FYI, you do not need to read any of the Den books to follow this saga. White Rabbit: The Rise which is Book 1 in the Kingmaker’s saga was amazing but this one takes the cake. It is epic!
“Only one person would ever own her heart.”
“Loving someone, flaws and all.”
“He might have been keeping his secrets, but he still wanted to share everything with her.
His life.
His wealth.
Everything that made him him.”
Seeing all the high’s and low’s in their relationship made their characters so much more relatable. Never once have I doubted the love they shared. It was interesting to watch the rise and fall of both Uilleam and Karina. I’ve never deemed any of them monsters just products of horrible pasts.
“Challenging me is never wise, poppet. You should know that..”
”The way I see it, my love, I’m the one that’s winning.”
Uilleam and Karina are just getting started in their game but I can see that the journey to get to the end is gonna make or break me. I can’t wait!! I know I said this for Book 1 but this is Ms. Miller’s best work to date!!