"I want to break you down into parts -into hope and despair. Into love and fear. I want to consume your humanity, feast on you, until there's nothing left but a small, jagged core at the centre." 
 If you have read "Endgame", you surely remember psycho, paedophile, disguising, pathetic excuse for a human being: Jonathan Scott. 
 If you haven't read Endgame, you will learn very soon in "The King" all the things he is capable of doing. 
 When his young son, Damon, shows his interested in Penny; Jonathan Scott knows once more how to play people and how to make them miserable. 
 Damon and Penny met when they were children. 
 Damon will grow up as the Prince of crime and he will be much older than 15 years old poor Penny with the gamble addict father. His father (and his worst enemy at the same time) will try to hurt him through Penny. 
 Still Damon will try to help her, to save her and to send her back to her mediocre life. 
 The book is - of course- dark and it focuses mainly on characters and less on the characters' surroundings. 
 The events take place nowadays, but I think they could have taken place in Victorian England without any problem. 
 A Spinoff from the Endgame series.