Beatrice’s empowering need to do something for independence and for the women of magic shines through C.L. Polk’s novel, The Midnight Bargain.
Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress trying to discover how she can become a full-fledged Magus by practicing in secret. When she discovers a grimoire at a bookstore one day, she bumps into Ysbeta Lavan who is also after the same grimoire, alongside her brother Ianthe Lavan. Ysbeta takes the grimoire leaving Beatrice to strike up a deal with a spirit as long as she kisses the handsome, kind, and amazingly wealthy, Ianthe. Would she decide to risk becoming a powerful Magus for a kiss to seal the deal?