EMPIRE OF DESIRE EMPIRE SERIES BOOK 1 RINA KENT Empire of Desire Copyright © 2021 by Rina Kent All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. ALSO BY RINA KENT EMPIRE SERIES Empire of Desire Empire of Sin Empire of Hate Empire of Lust ROYAL ELITE SERIES Cruel King Deviant King Steel Princess Twisted Kingdom Black Knight Vicious Prince Ruthless Empire Royal Elite Epilogue LIES & TRUTHS DUET All The Lies All The Truths THORNS DUET Yellow Thorns (Free Prequel) Red Thorns Black Thorns KINGDOM DUET Rule of a Kingdom (Free Prequel) Reign of a King Rise of a Queen THRONE DUET Throne of Power Throne of Vengeance DECEPTION TRILOGY Dark Deception (Free Prequel) Vow of Deception Tempted by Deception Consumed by Deception HATE & LOVE DUET He Hates Me He Hates Me Not To those who didn’t only dare to hope, But also went for it, And grabbed that motherfucker by the throat. AUTHOR NOTE Hello reader friend, This book isn’t dark as the rest of my books, but it’s filled with a lot of angst and contains tropes such as age gap, father’s best friend, marriage of convenience, unrequited love, and office romance. Empire of Desire is a complete STANDALONE. Sign up to Rina Kent’s Newsletter for news about future releases and an exclusive gift. BLURB My forbidden husband. I kissed my father’s best friend and it kind of didn’t go well. Not only because he’s eighteen years older than me—but he also didn’t like it. Not one bit. In my defense, I didn’t mean to fall for him. It just happened. Nathaniel Weaver is the most attractive man I’ve ever seen with enough charisma to blind the sun. He’s bigger than the world, owns half of it and conquered the other half. He was forbidden. Wrong. So I totally got over him. Or so I told myself. Until we’re forced to get married. Now I’m trapped. But maybe he’s trapped too. Because we’re both reaching for that forbidden fruit dangling between us.