DEVIL’S BARGAIN
Author: Natasha Knight
Release Date: June 5th, 2019
Blurb
She calls it a devil’s bargain. I call it a deal she can’t refuse.
I was owed a debt and I expected payment.
That payment?
One night in my bed. My rules. The debt cleared, and she could walk away.
There are worse things. And besides, debtors can’t be choosers.
The night started as it should. She obeyed as she should.
But then something happened. Something I was wholly unprepared for. And what I saw changed everything.
I broke my own rules after that. And I didn’t keep my end of the bargain.
Because walking away was no longer an option I would grant her, no matter the cost.
MY REVIEW
Natasha Knight has done it again, she
has pulled me in with this riveting and consuming read.
Melissa is a woman that has has a hard
life and when she meets Hawk, and he offers a devil’s bargain she cannot
refuse, she realizes it’s about to get that much harder.
Hawk gets everything he wants and right
now, he wants Melissa.
With different personalities and pasts
that haunt them both, do they have a chance at something more?
There are parts in this book that
completely broke me and touched me unlike anything I’ve read before. They are
brief but truly poignant moments that might make you shed a tear or two.
I adored Melissa and all the fight she
had in her. She did not take anything lying down and put Hawk in his place on
many occasion.
Hawk is somewhat of a brute who, on
occasion, has a dark temper. He left me breathless. You can feel his aura and
his power. With that being said, he was also a gentle giant. He cared for
Melissa when she really needed it like she was spun in glass.
Devil’s Bargain was a whirlwind and a
fast paced story that gripped me from the very beginning. But, because of the
fast pace, I found their declaration of love came a little too quickly.
I also found that the end was rushed and
wished there was a resolution to Melissa’s relationship with her sister.
I loved this couple’s story and wish
there was more.
I received an ARC of this book. All
thoughts and opinions are my own.
I reach out,
place my hand inside his. It feels warm and rough and when he closes his
fingers over mine, his grip is firm.
Because I
know what I must do. I know why he brought me here.
You owe her
nothing.
I manage to
get to my feet, and he’s got to be a good foot taller than me. Even with my
pumps, the top of my head barely reaches his chin.
Heads turn as
Hawk, his presence at my back enough to guide me, leads me toward a door at the
back of the room where a man stands sentry. He opens it at our approach.
I hesitate.
“Go on,” Hawk
says from behind me. He’s standing closer than I realize and a shudder runs
through me at the feel of his breath on the back of my neck.
I hear the
faint hint of his accent. I heard it throughout our conversation, stronger
sometimes than others.
I walk inside
and the lights go on. I realize I’m in his office. I don’t want to be impressed
or amazed, but this is spectacular.
“This way,”
he says, beckoning for me to come. He looks down at me and I think how strange
his eyes are. Different colors. One is a mossy-green, the other half green and
half crystal-blue. The green is warm, the blue ice-cold.
But I know
any warmth I think I see is in my head. This man, he’s all sharp edges. It’s
like someone took a beast out of the wild and put him in a thousand-dollar suit
thinking it would somehow tame the animal inside. Somehow contain it.
“Melissa?” he
says my name and I realize I’m staring.
“She was
going to do that? Let you sell her? To pay you back?”
He nods.
“You want me
to do that in her place?”
“I’m merely
giving you an option. It’s your choice entirely.”
“You want to
strip me, put me on that stage and sell me to pay a debt that’s not my own?”
He cocks his
head to the side like he’s annoyed. “Like I said, I’m giving you an option.
Don’t push me, Melissa. My kindness only goes so far.”
“Kindness?”
“Yes,
kindness. Besides,” he pauses as his gaze drops to my mouth, my chest. “I
wouldn’t be surprised if you drew more than what’s owed.”
“Is that
supposed to make me feel better? To make this sound somehow more appealing? Not
like what it is?” My voice is quaking, it’s as unsteady as I feel.
He shrugs a
shoulder like he couldn’t care less and checks his watch. “Your answer.”
I’ve never
been in a world like this before. A world of money where a quarter of a million
dollars is something you loan out. Where men like Hawk rule and women are put
on auction blocks to be sold to the highest bidder.
Hawk. Is that
his first name or his last name? I don’t even know. But I do know that I don’t
belong here. I don’t belong in his world.
“Melissa,”
his voice is firmer. “What’s your answer?”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance, Natasha Knight specializes in dark, tortured heroes. Happily-Ever-Afters are almost always guaranteed, but she likes to put her characters through hell to get them there. She’s evil like that.
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