Darkly read: Psyop Kings by K Webster

Hi, book buddies :-) I hope 2025 is behaving wonderfully to you in literary and human ways.

This year, I'm reading some more dark romance. It's intense to say the least :-D So that's why I'm talking about PSYOP KINGS, book 1 in a mindblowing trilogy by K. Webster. Hard to read? Maybe. Awesome and mindbending? Definitely.

PSYOP KINGS

Author: K Webster

Series: The Crown Conspiracy, book one

Release Date: January 31, 2025

Purchase Link: https://geni.us/pkkwevents

From USA Today Bestselling author K Webster comes a new dark captive romance… 

Someone kidnapped my classmate, and no one cares. Not the college, not the police—everyone just wants to forget her. But I won’t.

Finding Megan becomes my obsession, leading me straight into the world of the rich and ruthless Crowne family. They’re untouchable, powerful, and hiding something dark.

And I walk right into their trap.

Now I’m their prisoner, caught in a game of mind-bending control where every step they take shatters my sanity. And Caius Crowne—the coldest, most ruthless of them all—is determined to use me to get what he wants.

I hate him. I crave him. But I won’t break.

I might be their pawn for now, but I’ll outplay them all. Even if it’s the last thing I do. 

MY OPINION

If I say dark captive romance, does it capture your attention? Because it surely captured mine! 

I had to read this book as soon as I found out that it’s got a conspiracy surrounding the disappearance of a woman and the frenzied and determined search of her friend to find her. She faces the maddening enemies of indifference from the system and conspirators in the dark recesses of power and anonymity. I was hooked.

This story is entrenched in enigmas and mind games. I felt sucked in by the injustice of a woman just disappearing and nobody caring about it. I was as frustrated and eager as Romy to get to the bottom of it, to save her, to punish the culprits. But oh, this goes down the rabbit hole into a fathomless pit of mind-boggling, reality-twisting mystery. What is going on? Are the Crowne men lying like devils or Romy's mind utterly deluded? The doubt, the uncertainty of it all, was frying my nerves and gluing me to page after page. 

Romy is a strong character thrown into a world steeped in luxury and hair-rising depravity. I liked it when she was solving puzzles and defying adversaries, not so much when she was a victim to her circumstances. That's because I felt  as much a victim as she was, and every victim around her, that it made me itchy and uncomfortable. Some scenes are brutal and disgusting. It was hard to read them. However, the mysterious plot was so engaging that it really kept me going. The last chapter is both nefarious and a hook to jump onto the next book. What a crazy read!

*****

Psyop Kings is book one in The Crowne Conspiracy trilogy. 

This book is a dark, psychological romance that contains triggering content. 

This book ends on a cliffhanger.

 

Book 2 - Mind Maze: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLHWYV69 (3.31.25) 

Book 3 - Cup of Lies: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLHSJH3N (5.30.25)

ABOUT THE MASTERMIND

K Webster is a USA Today Bestselling author. Her titles have claimed many bestseller tags in numerous categories, are translated in multiple languages, and have been adapted into audiobooks. 

She lives in “Tornado Alley” with her husband, two children, and her baby dog named Blue. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and researching aliens.

 https://stan.store/authorkwebster

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