RELEASE BLITZ: GYPSY KING by Devney Perry

Regardless of how buried Kingston ‘Dash’ Slate worked to put the Tin Gypsies Motorcycle Club’s nefarious past behind him and his brothers, including suspending all illegal activity and going 100% legit, the sins of the father…the sins of the past always have a way of being dug up, especially when Bryce Ryan, new owner of Clifton Forge’s small town newspaper, hopes to dig up front page news and is hellbent on exposing the truth regardless of how deep she needs to go or the numerous encounters she’s forced to have with a certain ex-Tin Gypsies President who doesn’t want her sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong.

Needless to say, there’s nothing friendly about Dash and Bryce’s initial encounters, which makes sense since given what Dash’s father is up against and just how good Bryce is at her job. The way that Perry writes the progression of Dash and Bryce’s relationship works well because it’s clear they are on opposite sides when it comes to what Bryce wants to expose, but the more she proves herself to be a formidable foe, the more Dash wants to know everything about her.

Bryce is definitely a ball buster, and the fact that she one-ups Dash, on numerous occasions, only make her more attractive to him, meaning that he’ll keep playing her games and going head-to-head with her because her feistiness, her sharp wit, and her intelligence makes her his picture match. Dash is quite the contradictory character – his past very much made him the man he is today and even though he’s now on the right side of the law, that doesn’t negate all that he and his Tin Gypsies’ brothers have done. I felt a bevy of different feelings for him at various parts of the book, but, ultimately, I could appreciate the work he’s done to follow a path much different than the one he once did.

One aspect of Devney Perry’s stories that I’ve always appreciated is the role her secondary characters add to and play in the plot as well as how they also show themselves to be deserving of their own stories.

The story line has a little bit of everything romance lovers enjoy: suspense, drama, mystery, any sizzling chemistry between the hero and heroine. The murder mystery definitely becomes the main focus for both Dash and Bryce and that quest puts them on the same team, even if they have different reasons for wanting to seek out the truth. After everything played out the way they did, there were still a few questions left unanswered that I wanted more insight on, but I’m hoping as the series continues, that readers will become privy to that information and feel like it was resolved in the best way possible.

4.5 Poison Apples