Flaming hot marriage of convenience kinky romance. All the stars for the emotional development and sex scenes and honestly I could care less about the mob bosses and the politics of Carver City. This series is one-handed reading time goodness and it is fun to have the familiar characters in this made up world.

I definitely felt plopped in to the middle of something I didn't quite understand, perhaps because I did not read the second book in the series. The ending was super abrupt, but again, I'm not here for the plot and Roberts' character building shines. For a premise that Hook was not going to have sex with Tink until she said yes to forever, I felt like that promise of edging didn't really pan out haha. Glorious banging all around.

Thank you to the author for the advanced reading copy.

CW for past emotional/physical abuse of a main character, drinking, violence