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Lena King

@author.lenaking

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Em dash defender, bookworm, & lover of protective swoony men💕
Drafting my debut: 🏫🐦‍⬛💋🖤📚 🔪🔫🫀♠️👑♥️🌙🃏
WIP: Dynasties of Deceit Book 1

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A few of R.I.P.’s finest 🐦‍⬛😏

Meet some of my side characters from book 1!
The girls who absolutely should know better… and the boys who are going to make sure they don’t 🚩🫦

Who caught your eye and who do you think is going to cause the most chaos? 🖤

#wip #romance #enemiestolovers #mafiaromance #darkacademia by @author.lenaking

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If you need me, I’ll be here falling in love with people that exist only in my head… for now😌
The characters are fictional but my emotional attachment is not🫠

#wip #darkromance #darkacademia #enemiestolovers #mafiaromance by @author.lenaking

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Where’d you go? Come back 😭
Unfortunately, Adrian only exists between the hours my laptop is open 😩

#enemiestolovers #mafiaromance #darkromance #darkacademia #author by @author.lenaking

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Meet Adrian Mancini ♠️♥️♣️♦️

Future Don of the Chicago Outfit.

He can shoot with frightening precision without even facing his target head-on, but he can also make pasta from scratch, a sauce that would make angels sing, and an espresso so mean, it leaves Nonna’s to shame.

So, balance.

Adrian can’t go a day without the three c’s: caffeine, calisthenics, and cardio.
Which explains why he has the body of a Greek god. You know… If Greek gods came with Glocks, Italian citizenship, and a questionable relationship with the law.

And oh yeah… he’s also a full-time menace to Chiara Massani. And an avid collector of her knives.

He reads people as easily as he reads cards and rarely shows his hand. A deck is never far from him and neither are his best friends, Draco and Bruno (the latter also being his brother).

He’s charming, clever, fiercely loyal, never loses his composure, and has an irritating habit of talking or smiling his way out of everything.

He was raised for this life and he’s never had any intention of running from it.

He knows the rules.
He knows the game.
And he’s already three moves ahead.

Anyway—welcome to Chicago’s favorite son.

Dynasties of Deceit series — coming soon.

#enemiestolovers #mafiaromance #romance #darkacademia #wip by @author.lenaking

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72 hours in CHS 🌊🦀☕️📚

More WIP posts coming soon 👀

#charleston #author #darkromance by @author.lenaking

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Meet Chiara Massani ♡

New York’s favorite social butterfly.
She’s charming. She’s shameless. She’s the center of attention, a flirty, short Italian menace that runs on espresso and gossip.
And oh yeah… she’s incapable of owning a skirt that reaches her knees.

Daughter of the Don, eldest of ten, expert gossip collector, professional flirt, troublemaker, and stabby to a fault.

And she is absolutely not supposed to be fraternizing with boys. Her family says she’s supposed to be untouched until marriage.
Chiara says she’s just being friendly.

Good luck telling her what to do.
She never said she’d behave. 💋

Welcome to the Massani family. You’re going to want to keep up. 👀

Dynasties of Deceit series — coming soon.

#mafiaromance #wip #darkromance #enemiestolovers #author by @author.lenaking

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WELCOME TO R.I.P. 🐦‍⬛
(Renaissance International Preparatory)

Where the exceptional come to build their futures.
Where legacies are built.
Where reputations matter.
And where secrets are better left buried... yet nothing stays buried forever.
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One very particular acceptance letter is about to change everything. The question is... who?

DESTINATION: Renaissance International Preparatory
LOCATION: Armonk, New York
STATUS: Accepted

(Posting it again because it kept flagging my post as AI)

#DarkRomance #DarkAcademia #mafiaromance #author by @author.lenaking

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So… I guess it’s time to introduce you to my WIP 👀 ♥️

It’s an interconnected dark mafia romance series, and this is where it all begins. In upstate New York at an elite boarding school called Renaissance International Preparatory… or R.I.P.
(The faculty may or may not be on their last nerves with that little nickname… considering the *ahem* murders and “accidents”.)

It’s got rival mafia families, family drama, questionable decisions, dangerous secrets, and side characters you’ll end up loving as much as the main characters.

Then we’ve got our two MCs… who make enough bad decisions on their own to keep everyone busy. Mainly their proximity because that alone could ignite a war between their families.

They were supposed to hate each other.
They became friends instead.
Falling in love was the mistake.

Welcome to R.I.P. 🐦‍⬛🔪🖤

#romancebook #darkromance #DarkAcademia #mafiaromance #author by @author.lenaking

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Hi, I’m so happy you’re here ♥️
Swipe for a sneak peek of my WIP tropes 👀
I’m so excited!!!

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#bookstagram #booksta #romancebook #darkromance #debutauthor by @author.lenaking

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