Tin Queen by Devney Perry
No guarantees. There are none. no names Emmett Stone and the woman he first noticed two months ago agreed to that. After years of drama following the dissolution of his motorcycle club, he needs nothing more than a casual encounter with an unknown woman. But as they spend more and more time together, he finds it difficult to control his emotions. She has wit and sass. She has grace and kindness. She enjoys relaxing in his bed on Sunday mornings and riding the back of his bike every Saturday afternoon. She is the ideal female.
However, she is actually Nova Talbot, his bitter rival and the man who killed his father. Unless she can persuade Emmett that her affections are genuine, her identity will lose the man who has grabbed her heart. Before he finds out why she initially suggested their brief liaison.
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Devney Perry has established herself as a dominant force in the “small town romance” category, and Tin Queen has everything I love about her books: excellent writing, likeable characters, and a suspenseful, emotionally-charged story that grabs you by the throat from the first page. The dark plots and deeply nuanced romances of this series’ concluding volume continually captivate readers. Perry reserved the most astounding plot for last.
It all begins with two ostensible strangers running into each other at a pub, followed by a night of wild sex with no names exchanged. One night becomes two, then three, then four, and soon into many more, but the hero doesn’t realize until the very end that the woman he has fallen in love with is the daughter of his worst adversary and that she has come to town to destroy him. Perry takes the cliché of “enemies-to-lovers” and turns it completely on its head.
Knowing that Tin Queen was the last book in the Tin Gypsy series and that seeing the words “the end” meant saying goodbye to Clifton Forge forever made reading it bittersweet, but what a way to end! As someone who has always supported Dash/Bryce, I can state with certainty that Devney Perry saved the best for last. However, Ace/Emmett and Nova/June have narrowly beaten them to the finish line.
June Nova Johnson Talbot is motivated by her brother’s death, her grief, and a deep-seated desire for vengeance. She also has an almost pathological need to win her imprisoned father’s love and approval by carrying out a mission that others have attempted but failed at—destroying the remaining Tin Gypsies. As her schemes come to fruition, she finds herself caught between her desire for vengeance and her increasing love for Emmett, which forces her to examine who she has become. Emmett has made an effort to move past the past. He made mistakes as a Gypsy that he now regrets, but he never hurt an innocent person.
He has no plans to get married because he enjoys being an honorary uncle to his nieces and nephews. He has three guidelines for his love life: No Promises, No Expectations, and No Names. But when he first meets Nova, their attraction is magnetic, and what begins as a one-night stand on his part gradually turns into more as they appear unable to stay apart. What else should we have expected from two such powerful characters that at first glance were meant for each other but what is love without some of the sexiest passages Devney Perry has ever written between Emmett and Nova?
