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Cover of Midnight Claim by Mara Reed

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Midnight Claim

Steamy contemporary · Gambling tension · moral gray · High heat

Montreal bartender Sloane Varga wins a seat at a private poker weekend in the Laurentians. The high roller across the table is Dominic Kade, playing for a debt that may not be his. Fast seduction, clever dialogue, chips and half truths.

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Tropes

  • Gambling weekend
  • Enemies to lovers energy
  • Moral gray hero
  • Fast seduction
  • High heat

Content warnings

  • Gambling and debt themes
  • Explicit intimate scenes
  • Deception and half truths
  • Alcohol use

Excerpt

The private room had no clocks. Only felt, chips, and the kind of quiet money prefers. Sloane sat down across from Dominic Kade and watched him shuffle like the deck owed him answers. He looked at her once, long enough to make the table feel smaller, then said, Deal. As if they were already past the part where either of them could walk away clean.