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Between Two Kings

Split or Swallow 2: the even steamier sequel to the bestselling novel that is taking the world by storm!

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Between Two Kings

By: Lindsay Straube
Narrated by: Gem Loveley, Jackson Keeling
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***The instant New York Times bestseller!***
From internet sensation and bestseller Lindsay Straube comes the second book in the sexy, biting Split or Swallow series, featuring dangerous basilisks, competitive seduction, and a love triangle that could destroy two kingdoms.

Tem never thought she'd fall in love. But now she's caught between the Serpent King and the newly crowned human king . . . And the war that is brewing between the basilisks and the humans.

Tem led a simple life on the family chicken farm, but now, her eyes had been opened-to love, to lust, to the pull of power, gold, obligation, and the violence of greed and war.

When Tem embraced her basilisk half and crested Leo, she thought she'd set him free. Though it nearly broke her, now he could find his first love again, and she could be happy with Caspen.

But love is complicated. As much as Tem embraces her serpent side, rules and loopholes keep her beholden to Leo . . . despite her marriage to Caspen.

And Tem and Leo's desire continues to smoulder . . . desire that could set the entire kingdom on fire.

Readers LOVE the Split Or Swallow series!
If you don't end up hissing after you read this book, then READ IT AGAIN. This unhinged, addictive, and smutty book was the highlight of my month! 5 freaking stars!

I am not a monster romance girlie but want me to tell you why I railroaded this book in A SINGLE DAY? BECAUSE ITS INCREDIBLE.

SOS, I need help because of how in love with this story I am 😈🐍🤝 (put me down)

Monster stuff is weird to me and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. I will die on that hill. THIS monster stuff?? Give me all of it and more. I will read this again, maybe a third time, before the year is up.

Serpent summer FOREVER.

miss straube ATE and left no crumbs with this one.©2025 Lindsay Straube Fantasy Royalty
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A great way of connecting book one with the story of the two kings, it had me on the edge of my seat, love the spice, plot and narrators

Captivating

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The only thing I don’t like was how she kept to high moral of what to tell when to tell . Other than that this was fantastic

It was brilliantly dirty

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I have NEVER rated a book BEFORE I was finished! I am about 85% finished and I just couldn’t wait! am SO SO glad I decided to listen to the second book! I didn’t even know it was out and when I saw it was in duet it pretty much sealed my decision. I didn’t anticipate the storyline though! The plot certainly does thicken and I am heartbroken because WTAF TEM! I almost don’t want to finish it because I am scared of what’s going to happen. I’m so invested now and I my heart can’t take it. BTW I have never listened to anything as spicy as these books and I have listened to a lot of dark and spicy books but this takes the cake and I’m so here for it! Apollo 🥵

Duel Narration YES!

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✨ November Book Pick for Spicy Book Club hosted by @sydneybooksociety lead by @etidae ✨

Since this is the second and last book of the duology I won’t list any tropes (for fear of spoilers) 🙌 Overall, standing ovation for the narrators 👏 👏 👏 Duet narration and narrators did a really good job. The book itself ended in a way that was not what I like to see in stories but happens fairly regularly where a female becomes too powerful during her journey and must be punished for it. It was emotional and bittersweet ending to a long, smut filled story that barely resolved some of the overarching world problems. While it was a fun and questionable ride, at the end of the journey I’m unfulfilled, unsatisfied, full of questions and lamentations.

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✨ November Book Pick for Spicy Book Club hosted by @sydneybooksociety lead by @etidae ✨

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I couldn’t stop listening! I loved this series and characters! I could not stop listening, the narrators did great!

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