There are quite a few things I admire about this romance. The first is that the characters are dramatically different than most any I have read—especially the hero.

Betting with Lucifer reminded me strongly of LaVyrle Spencer’s Morning Glory not because the setting or plot was the same but because both leads were powerless characters. Now looking at their positions in their careers you wouldn’t expect it but both the hero and heroine are deeply flawed individuals.

The heroine, Lyndsay (Linny, Lynds) Eden is the Director of Marketing at her late mother’s hotel (not to say the mother owned it, but worked at it too). Her goal is to be promoted to General Manager in the same time frame her mother did. How she figured on doing this, is hard to say. Lyndsay is an extremely timid person. It terrifies her to small talk and glad-hand. Thus Lyndsay works herself very hard and pushes herself more to man up; to get in front of people to do her job.

The hero, Lucifer (Luke) Pierse, was technically an orphan growing up. His surviving parent was an alcoholic who never saw him. He on the surface is everything Lyndsay is not. On her business-communications marketing team, Luke unnerves her without trying. His outgoing, wise-cracking, good old boy, routine works well in Luke’s favor on most days but really hides a second nature of himself. Sometimes he is even aware at how he secretly sabotages everything he does.

The two have a very rocky road to travel to find their HEA, especially when Luke is promoted to Director of Public Relations, a stepping stone Lyndsay was hoping to claim for herself.

That said while I enjoyed the risk Tracy took in writing these leads, they just didn't do it for me. I did not really like Luke as a hero and there were times when all I wanted to do was shake some sense into Lyndsay.

Rating: 2.5 Stars

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