Midnight with the Devil by Emma Castle – a Review

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Description:
He’s sexy as sin and hotter than hell and—oh wait.

What would you do to save a loved one’s life? Make a pact with the Devil?

In Diana Kingston’s defense, it was the middle of the night in the deserted hospital chapel… surely it was just a dream. She hadn’t really sold herself to a brooding stranger to save her father’s life, right? Then she wakes and her father is fully recovered and a mysterious letter arrives from the tall, dark, handsome—um, Devil? Yep, it was right there on the contract, Lucien Star, aka Lucifer Morningstar, that had been his name in the dream… Gulp. What would the Devil himself want with her? Sex. Three months of hot, sweaty, Friday night sex.

Ooookay. Breaking a pact with the Devil doesn’t seem like a smart move. So she’ll do it—but she won’t like it. Not much anyway. But she starts liking it – a lot—and every night they spend together, she likes it and Lucien a little more. Being with him allows her naughty side to come out and play, but Diana starts to see more than just a sexy-as-sin, rock-hard … er…Anyway, he might be Satan, but even he was an angel once. Kind. Noble. And she sees glimpses of that man still inside him… But how in Heaven’s name do you save the Devil from himself?

Review:

Midnight with the Devil by Emma Castle is her debut novel, and  I have to say it was an awesome start.

Diana Kingston, our heroine, is at the hospital, watching her father slowly dying.  She prays for a way to save him, and out of the blue, Diana is offered a chance to make a deal to save her father’s life.  But the person who is offering the deal is the devil himself, Lucifer Morningstar, and all he wants is her is to give herself to him to do whatever he wants for three months; every Friday night at midnight.  All Satan wants is Diana’s pure soul to keep the gates of hell closed & eventually turn her dark.   With a contract in hand, despite her misgivings and disbelief, Diana accepts the contract, to save her father. 

We all know the story of Lucifer and how he became a fallen angel and bad boy in charge of Hell.  Lucien Star (Lucifer Morningstar) is the name he uses now, since is tired of living in hell, and lives on earth among humanity, in his penthouse and night club. It did have a short similar ring to the tv show Lucifer.  Diana at first is nervous when she arrives at Lucien’s penthouse, and in a short time she cannot resist him.

What follows is an unlikely romance with Diana in time falling for the forbidden Lucien, and he feels himself starting to have feelings for her, which has never happened to him before.   This was a hot sexy as hell romance that caught me by surprise.   I expected this to be a dark romance, but it was anything but that.  Lucien was handsome, sexy, demanding, but he treated Diana with what would turn out to be love.  I absolutely loved them together, despite knowing somehow it had to come to an end.   

Midnight with the Devil was a wonderful fun steamy romance, written so very well by Emma Castle.  She made us fall in love with both Lucien and Diana, who were truly an unlikely pair, and made this work so well.  It was amazing to see how both of them began to change in a short time; those sex scenes were as I said…hotter than HELL.  I really enjoyed all the secondary characters, and the ending of this story was so fantastic, it left me feeling very emotional.  Bravo to Emma Castle for this sexy, beautiful, wonderful, satisfying and unexpected romance.  I suggest to jump on the bandwagon and start reading Emma Castle now.

Reviewed by Barb

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