Release Me
Nikki Fairchild is a pageant-raised Texan turned Los Angeles transplant, working a lateral corporate job she hates and hiding a past she has not named out loud to anyone. At a charity auction, she meets Damien Stark, a former tennis prodigy and self-made billionaire whose offer is not subtle: a million dollars to be his for a single summer, on his terms. What begins as a transactional arrangement begins to feel, to both of them, like something neither was prepared to hand over. As their contract unfolds across Malibu houses, private jets, and carefully controlled scenes, Damien's past and Nikki's hidden scars start to press against the boundaries they set. J. Kenner's 2013 novel opens the Stark trilogy and became a definitive entry in the post-Fifty Shades billionaire-romance wave.
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First in the Stark trilogy. Damien Stark is a self-made tech billionaire who offers Nikki Fairchild a million dollars to model nude for a private painting. They are not strangers, and the deal isn't simple.
Yes. Release Me contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. It was part of the post-Fifty Shades wave of mainstream-published BDSM-themed romance.
Yes. Release Me contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. It was part of the post-Fifty Shades wave of mainstream-published BDSM-themed romance.
J. Kenner's Stark series has multiple connected sub-series with more than 20 novels and novellas, all set in the same world following Damien Stark and his orbit.
Release Me was written by J. Kenner, published in 2013 by Headline Publishing Group.
Release Me is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Release Me takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
Release Me is a standalone novel by J. Kenner, not part of a series.
Release Me is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
