The Midnight Room by Ronica Black

 

The ninth offering by Ronica Black, The Midnight Room was certainly a surprise. The surprise was the setting, a lesbian bar called The Griffin. I’ve frequented my share of lesbian and gay bars through the years and I’ve never been inside one quite like this. And trust me, that’s a shame because it would have become my favorite playground.

From the first gust of wind, the reader is pulled into the world-wind lives of Lillian Gray and Audrey McCarthy, one more controlled than the other. The Griffin is “all about one thing,” because lust at The Giffin “was like prayer service” at Lillian’s church.

Thanks to a friend, Lillian finds herself one of  two lucky ladies to go into The Midnight Room, thought by many to be a sex room. The second winner was local hottie McCarthy, the only woman Lillian would allow herself to stare at since her ex-girlfriend left her.

The Midnight Room is not a love-at-first-sight mushy romance, but instead a relunctant relationship between two totally opposite women that began with sex in The Griffin’s special velvet room.

This book made me an instant fan of Black’s easy, casual storytelling, which I’m sure requires more effort than she makes it appear. In fact, when I finished reading The Midnight Room, I sought out the other eight books written by Black, including Inn Too Deep, Deeper, Wild Abandon, Hearts Aflame, The Seeker, Chasing Love, Conquest and Wholehearted.

 

The Midnight Room

By Ronica Black

Paperback

Bold Strokes Books