I spend my nights slinging drinks at Black Magic Bar or taking my clothes off at the local strip club. After my father passed, my stepmother gave me no other choice.
But when I break free of the chains binding me to my family estate, I find myself with nowhere to go. Until Nero Voss, the youngest of the billionaire Voss brothers, offers me a room at Midnight Manor. Now, I’m under his watchful gaze and enjoying it more than I should.
I shouldn’t give in to temptation, he is my stepsister’s ex-fiancé after all, but the pull toward him grows stronger by the day. I fight, but I’m losing the battle.
Nero is keeping secrets, though.
What he doesn’t know is that I’m keeping secrets, too.
My Review
'M𝐈D𝐍I𝐆H𝐓 𝐖H𝐈S𝐏E𝐑S' Is the third full length contemporary billionaire romance in the (Midnight Manor) series. Spoken in 'dual perspectives.' Nero & Cinder
This is Nero Voss's story, a Cinderella retelling, and like the original story, the stepmother and her daughters make Cinder's life a living hell, day in day out she's at their beck and call, not only doing all their chores but hers as well and working as a stripper and bartender to cater for their expensive tastes which she has to hand over her wages to compensate for.
Nero was all set to marry Maude, Cinder's step sister until an indiscretion came to light and he called off the wedding, and then fixated on a girl he stumbled across as she worked her stripping job, enter Cinder..
Until enough was enough and via text she left the house of slave labour. With nowhere to go and saved by her friendly stalker Nero offers her a safe sanctuary until she can get back up on her feet. But once Cinder was under his roof he made sure that’s where she stayed.
All of Nero's older brothers have kidnapped their girls so he surprised me when he didn't follow down that same path as them. Maybe the youngest Voss is the most mature one of the lot, because other than his stalking ways he controlled himself and kind of did things the right way without having to go to the lengths his brothers went to.
I wouldn't necessarily peg this as a dark romance book unless I'm completely desensitized to puppy dog stalkers. I didn't particularly find Nero a dark hero, he'd made mistakes knew his shortcomings and admitted that he can fixate on a person which in turn means he stalks them, one time and one time only he did take it too far but now he controls those urges.
