Liam “Hunter” Blake hates the Reapers MC. Born and raised a Devil’s Jack, he knows his duty. He’ll defend his club from their oldest enemies—the Reapers—using whatever weapons he can find. But why use force when the Reapers’ president has a daughter who’s alone and vulnerable? Hunter has wanted her from the minute he saw her, and now he has an excuse to take her.

Em has lived her entire life in the shadow of the Reapers. Her overprotective father, Picnic, is the club’s president. The last time she had a boyfriend, Picnic shot him. Now the men in her life are far more interested in keeping her daddy happy than showing her a good time. Then she meets a handsome stranger—a man who isn't afraid to treat her like a real woman. One who isn't afraid of her father. His name is Liam, and he’s The One.

Or so she thinks.





I’d been so f***ing naive. Blind. Never again. From now on, I’d be making my own decisions and Dad would just have to deal with it.

Devil’s Game was a wild ride, with a sweet side. Those who have followed this series for a while now, will know something was going on with Emmy and Liam/Hunter. This book overlaps the timeline of Reaper’s Legacy for the first third or so. But as much as the storyline up to that point was a known factor, there were so many details that were unknown because Legacy was told from Sophie and Ruger’s views. What led up to the kidnapping? How well did Em really know this Liam fellow she was so enamored of? And what happened before the girls were handcuffed in the same room while kidnapped? Devil’s Game answers all those questions that came from Reaper’s Legacy and takes off, creating and answering so many more.

As the daughter of Reapers’ president, Picnic, Emmy knows about life inside a motorcycle club. She grew up watching her mom and the other old ladies handle their men, knowing that someday she would most likely also end up with a Reaper as an old man. Of Picnic’s two daughters, she is the more easy going daughter -- more likely to toe the line than rumple feathers. But being the “good one” came with it’s downside -- none of the men around her would risk angering Picnic to be with her.

Hunter is a nomad member of the Devil Jacks, the Reapers’ rival. Hunter was the main muscle behind the kidnapping of Emmy and Sophie in Reaper’s Legacy. But the situation that put the women in the place to be kidnapped in the first place was alluded to, if not all that clearly before any pages of Devil’s Game were turned.

This was a great adaptation of the Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers storyline. Coming from rival clubs, Emmy and Hunter should not have crossed paths, even in an official capacity. But when the Devil Jacks set their sights on using Emmy as a bridge between their club and the Reapers, Hunter must find a way to get Emmy’s attention without drawing attention to his club affiliation. And neither he nor his brothers anticipate what happens when feelings get in the way of the club’s plans.

I loved this story from start to finish. Emmy goes through such great character development. From hiding in the club’s shadow to an independent student making choices for the first time, to attempting to bridge two rival clubs without betraying either, she goes through immense growth and development. Hunter, too, has a lot to learn about himself and relationships over the course of the book, and a conversation with Picnic late in the book had me chuckling at the ignorance about what it means to be in a relationship as opposed to simply sleeping with a woman. (And knowing Picnic knew exactly what Liam would be walking into in that situation and let him do it anyway made it even funnier to watch.)

One of the things I love about the Reaper’s MC series is that it’s like reading two books in one. There is the love story developing throughout the plot, and in this case is simmering before the book even opens. And then there is also the club aspect that throws a wrench in the relationship. This means there are multiple points throughout the book where the story feels like it is reaching it’s end, only to have the club loose ends come up to tangle things up again.

I was gifted a copy in exchange for an honest review. 
Em was strong, vibrant, and did not take crap. She grew up with MC guys and knew how to handle them. She had her eyes set on one of the Reapers, Painter, but that was not going anywhere fast. And Liam was able to sneak in and grab her attention, thus ending in the whole kidnapping mess that did not end well. Due to the circumstances it was hard to tell what was true and what was set up. It was a confusing mix of longing, heart break, mistrust, misunderstandings, and hope. But she definitely made an impression and she was tough enough to make a previously unloved man start to question what is really important in life. As they started to deal with the danger and drama swirling around them, I became more invested in them as couple and finding a way to make all of the factions happy.