The Exception

Billionaire Kings

By: Eva Winners

Narrated by: Troy Duran, MacKenzie Cartwright

Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

One contract.
One billionaire.

Charming. Devastatingly handsome. Ridiculously rich. Kristoff Baldwin came without warning. He made me an offer I couldn’t refuse, and before I could even realize the impact he was making, I was too far gone, despite knowing the consequences of falling.

A future together was the impossible dream. My past haunted me and even he had ghosts of his own.

Then everything changed when his past came after me and my daughters.

There are disguised blessings in every tragedy. Although I can’t help but wonder if my tragedy is about to destroy a once in a lifetime chance at love.

©2022 Eva Winners (P)2023 Eva Winners

steamy office romance

A billionaire, steamy,office romance and a single mom.
Kristoff is a stern boss, who knows what he wants. When Gemma applied for a job being his pa, she refused at first. He made an arrangement she couldn't refuse.
Miscommunication, and both have hurts in the past that makes it difficult to trust. Another great story by Eva Winners.
Troy Duran and MacKenzie Cartwright brought the characters to life. Troys depiction of Kristoff is exactly as i pictured, with his swoony, deep, growly voice.
Mackenzie Cartwright gave Gemma the sweetness and strength to portray her character. Both are very talented voice actors.
very well done
#the flock on tour

Steamy Billionaire romance

Wow! What a steamy romance listen. Winners delivers a well written romance that captivated me with its smooth flowing storyline and amazingly strong characters. Dual narration by the fantastic talents of Troy Duran and MacKenzie Cartwright brought characters to life. I think I swooned a little at the Duran's voice as Kristof, deep, raspy and authoritative, just like this character and Cartwright did a great job as Gemma, sounding sweet yet strong and protective. These main characters both holding on to past hurts and trauma that makes trusting others all but impossible but the chemistry between the two is undeniable. Some miscommunications, outside interference and frankly some duh, I messed up moments interfere with a quick and simple HEA but isn't that just like life - a bit messy but hopefully in the end the right exception comes along and breaks all the rules you put in place to guard your heart. Loved the title, these characters and the storyline. Sweet and steamy as well as emotional. A great listen! I can't wait to see what's next from Winners!

Good but.. drawn out

Book 3 stars
Audiobook 4.5 stars

This book I enjoyed for awhile and then.. it sadly got repetitive and longer than needed. The main characters had the same issue of miscommunication and crazy levels of jealousy on the mmc’s side that continued to cause problems and draw this book out.

Audiobook - duet narration, with Troy Duran who is an instant download for me. I thought they did a great job!

New Author to me.. Eva Winners is fantastic!

I have many thoughts about this book. So here we go...
It's really long. Longer than I thought it should be. It's also good though.
This was my first read by Eva Winners and the entire time I just kept thinking, how have I never heard of her?! She's a great author and I wasn't even halfway through this book and I knew I would read ALL her books.

Kristoff was posessive, damaged, and hot hot hot. Gemma was a single mom with serious baggage and mistrust which is to be expected after all she's been through.
There's a lot of miscommunications and frustrating moments in the long book where you think wtf, but in the end I really enjoyed the book and obviously I moved on to the next, Contract of a Billionaire (Alessio Russo and Autumn's story)!

This book was steamy steamy steamy! There was chemistry, connection, angst, and fireworks. The build up was there and BOOM.... 💥 🔥 .

Troy Duran as a narrator is 🤤 🔥 , he's just swoon worthy! MacKenzie Cartwright nailed Gemma and was able to not make her sound whiny, which is a pet peeve for me personally.

Plot- ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 4.5/5 (only because it was too long)
Steam- 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 5/5 🥵
Narration- ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 5/5

Definitely Worth It! 🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️

The captivating narrators & extremely interesting plot made this another successful audiobook in my extensive collection 😉 Do not hesitate and buy this book!

strong female lead

I loved this book... even though it took me a couple months to stay listening to it.

Good but a little repetitive and drawn out.

Beautiful story and although I love a long book, the length of this one seemed unnecessary. The repetitive ongoing internal dialogue of both MC’s was slightly annoying.

great love story

the story line kept me intrigued and waiting for the next scene. both characters were beautifully written

Loved every minute of it!!!

This is the first time I experienced this author and she didn’t disappoint. Although the story was long I still enjoyed every minute of it. Mackenzie Cartwright’s narration was fantastic but I will never get enough of Troy Duran’s voice. He is one of my favorites!!! Great story and lots of steam.

gemma & kristoff

first off, eva winners writes the best characters.
gemma & kristoff were a ROLLER COASTER but they were still so fun. gemma & her kids have been through a lot & kristoff has been burned in the past, which made both of them have trust issues. troy duran & mackenzie cartwright brought these characters to life & emotion was there.

excited for what’s to come next from eva winners!