Beauty and the Devil
by itsvlada
❤️ Are you a fan of good girl-bad boy stories? Beauty and the Devil is a sizzling hot romance that explores control and loyalty…
- Genre
- New Adult
- Chapters
- 30
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 4.5K
18+Review by mydrama ·
Samantha is a hot brunette who is 25 and barely scraping by helping her brother Michael stay in school. Being so charming, she is still a virgin as she has no time for anything but work. The young woman is working hard at a spa, hitting double shifts to earn as much as she can.
Then one day, a high-paying client that no one else wanted walked in. He was someone everyone whispered about but never to his face. His name was Clyde Marlowe, and he appeared to be a dangerous man with a big reputation.
Clyde didn’t initiate any physical contact at first; instead, he wanted control. Wanting Samantha by his side all the time, Clyde made me a deal: she must work in his club, and he will take care of Michael’s debts.
Soon, Samantha understands that Clyde does not want sex; he wants total control. But can a young woman surrender and do whatever Clyde asks for?
Themes Discussed in Beauty and the Devil
💪 Power and control
😭 Survival and desperation
💓 Sacrifice and loyalty
👩❤️👨 Bad boy-good girl
Reasons to Read Beauty and the Devil
💕 Dark and gritty romance
⚡ Complex power dynamics
👠 A heroine readers will feel for
🍓 Seductive writing for an adult audience
Meet The Main Characters
👩 Samantha
Samantha is tired from working all the hours in the day, trying to support her brother Michael. She is still a virgin, not by choice, but as she has no time for herself. She meets Clyde and her life changes: on one hand, she is grateful for a stranger helping her brother, but on the other hand, she must surrender.
🧑 Clyde
Clyde is presented as a mysterious and powerful man whom everyone has heard of around town. He demands respect and loves control. He doesn’t want Samantha to be his sex slave, but he shows him loyalty. Throughout the book, readers will have a chance to discover what Clyde really desires and what makes him so controlling.
🌟 This romance in our passion exclusive category explores relationship addiction and is promised to keep readers glued to the book thanks to tension and steamy scenes.
Beauty and the Devil synopsis
I was twenty-five. Still a virgin. Not because I was saving myself — just because life never gave me the space to want anything. I was exhausted, broke, trying to keep my younger brother Michael in school and out of trouble. Every day was work and worry, double shifts at the spa, scraping by while the world moved on without me.
Then I got offered a private client. High-paying. Last-minute. Nobody else wanted him. They said he was dangerous. The kind of man people whispered about but never dared to name.
His name was Clyde Marlowe. He didn’t touch me that first day, but he saw me. Really saw me. Like he knew exactly what I was — someone who’d never been touched, someone with nothing left to lose but pretending she had control.
When Michael got caught up with the wrong people — dealers, gang money, promises he couldn’t keep — Clyde made me a deal. He’d handle the debt. He’d keep Michael alive. But I had to work for him.
Not in the spa.
In his club.
I danced. I performed. I wore what he told me to wear. And I told myself I could survive it. That I could do all of it and still walk away untouched. But the more time I spent in that house, under his rules, the more I started to unravel.
Because it wasn’t just the club. It was him.
Clyde didn’t want sex. He wanted control. He wanted presence. And the sickest part was… I started wanting to give it to him. Even when I hated him. Even when I hated myself.
Read Beauty and the Devil – chapter 1
Samantha’s POV
The older woman on my table let out a sigh of contentment as I adjusted the towel across her shoulders. “You have magic in your hands, dear,” she said, her voice like velvet unraveling. “And you’re easy to talk to. That’s rare these days.”
I smiled faintly and nodded. I’d heard that a lot—about the talking, the listening. Not the magic. That part always felt like a fluke.
I used to dream of quiet offices and meaningful conversations. A desk with plants on it. Degrees framed on the wall. Helping people untangle the mess inside their minds like a soft, guiding voice through the dark.
But life doesn’t care about your plans.
Now I work in a dim room that smells like lavender and lemon balm, pressing knots out of strangers’ backs for a living. I still help people, I guess. Just not the way I wanted.
When she left, I sat on the edge of the massage table, rubbed the ache out of my palms, and looked at the clock. Still four hours left on my shift. Another full room waiting. Maybe two.
I didn’t used to feel this tired. But then again, I didn’t use to carry the weight of someone else’s future on my shoulders.
Michael—my little brother, my only family—was the reason I pushed through every day. I’d been seventeen when our parents died, twenty when I gave up on college, twenty-three when I took the second job. Now I was twenty-five, with chestnut hair I didn’t have time to style and a face clients called “pretty” in the same breath they asked if I had a boyfriend.
I didn’t.
Never did.
Tropes
- Mystery
- Affair
- Betrayal
- Romance
- Bad boy
- Steamy