One Night (The Assistant Series)

Title: One Night Author: Ramona Gray Designation: Full-Length Standalone Novel, NO Cliffhanger My Rating: Five Delightfully Entertaining Stars***** I've been a diehard Ramona Gray fan for several years and look forward to her new releases. I adore contemporary romance, especially when it's sprinkled throughout with a little heartbreaking angst and a whole lot of cutesy humor, and Ramona has once again delivered the perfect combination. One Night is a light, fast-paced, well crafted, well edited, full-length standalone contemporary romance with a beautifully written third person his and her narrative. The dialogue is smart, witty, well executed and flows effortlessly. But without a doubt, my favorite component of every Ramona Gray romance is her cast of engaging, totally relatable and sexy as sin characters. I fell in love with the two protagonists of this story, handsome attorney Edward Turner who is still grieving the loss of his beloved first wife and beautiful personal assistant Kate Jones, whose only relationship in the past year has been with her cat, Chicken. The attraction between Edward and Kate upon their first meeting on the train as strangers is immediate as well as off the charts hot. Regrettably, their attraction becomes somewhat awkward after they discover several hours later that Edward is Kate's new boss. Oh no! I thought these two characters were a perfect pairing and played off each other brilliantly. I was instantly smitten with Edward simply because he's not your typical cocky male hero. Edward is a charming but sensitive man, still reeling from the loss of his beloved wife Tabitha who died from a brain tumor only two years earlier. He's haunted by his memories of their happy life together and jumps at the opportunity to leave his old law firm in New York and moves across the country to accept a partnership offer with Harper and Thompson in California. Kate Jones, his new personal assistant, is the first woman to even catch his eye since his wife's death. Edward feels guilty for the undeniable attraction he feels toward Kate and is determined to fight his feelings for Kate, albeit unsuccessfully. And to complicate the situation even further, dating among coworkers is strictly forbidden. What's the old saying about forbidden fruit always tasting the sweetest?!? And Kate is an absolute delight. I fell in love with Kate and her pet cat, Chicken, whom we met briefly in Gray's previous release, The Assistant, which featured Kate's younger sister, Lina Jones, who, ironically, also falls in love with her boss. Naturally, Kate wisely advised Lina to never fall for her boss since it would only lead to disaster. lol... Well, what goes around, comes around as Kate learns never to say never! Add in a delightful cast of supporting characters which includes a cranky pet cat rescued from the shelter named Chicken who seems to dislike everyone but Edward, a jealous vindictive female lawyer who seems to hate Kate and would love nothing better to see her lose her job, a lawyer from a competing firm who wants to offer Kate more than just a job, a deceased wife determined to help her grieving husband find love again and you have the perfect recipe for a sweet, sexy, heartwarming romance that is sure to tickle your fancy as well as tug on your heartstrings! In order to determine my rating for a book, there are several questions I always ask myself. First, did I like, love or hate this book? Quite simply, I loved it! If you're in the mood for a fun, flirty, sexy romp filled to the brim with heated attraction, fiery passion and steamy, dreamy romance, then this is definitely the book for you! Second, was there anything about the book I didn't like? In all honesty, not a darn thing! It was well crafted, well written and well edited. Sure, there a few minor boo-boos but no glaring problems as suggested by a previous reviewer and absolutely nothing that distracted me from the story. I read the reviews before purchasing this book and found the remarks of bad editing made by another reviewer to be groundless and completely false. Don't take my word for it; you can actually read the first two chapters of the book in the free sample offered by Amazon. I think you'll find I speak the truth. I'm not a professional reviewer but I know what I like, what I love and what I don't and I loved this story. Third, would I recommend this book? You bet and I am but only for adult readers since it does contain some exquisitely written love scenes. Fourth, will I read this author again? Absolutely! Just as soon as she releases her next book! And finally, was I entertained? Oh lawd, yes, I was definitely entertained! I was immediately drawn into the story, held completely enthralled with the pages flying as did the time. Fabulous entertainment and an awesome read!

Honestly ? I wanna write a review to help both Ms.Gray and to promote this book but I feel kinda lost.... One minute I felt caught up in their chemistry the next not soo much,I enjoyed the book but I wasn't able to hang on to the excitement the snippet at the end of Kate's sisters ( Lina) book inspired, after reading that snippet at the end of " The Assistant" I was chomping at the bit to read more about the sensual sexual chemistry I'd read about and while I certainly can't say this story fell flat for me in any way really,it just didn't keep my interest or attention either, maybe the story was too simple too easy, I mean except for the whole " don't sleep w/the underlings " policy and two different women being snotty and trying to push their unwanted selves on Edward there was never any REAL tension or drama.... Their chemistry was good but it felt kinda hit and miss ,on and I for at times ,though Edward ( growls softly) was soo sexy smexy in his jealous or Alpha dog moments ;) their was t enough of those... Wanted more passion at times and more backstory on others like, Why was Edwards hand soo callused ? Every time they had sex just about his rough or calloused hands were mentioned but he's a Lawyer ? Surely pushing/filing papers are only good for paper cuts and typing should never leave your hands " rough or callused " .. Right ? I mean if like me you have a geek in your life you can't ( numerous) complaints ( like 20 minutes to "fix" something really being 2 hours or how engrossed they can get in a game or a code and forget you exist for hours on end) but rough fingers from typing ? Not really.... And Kate ,does all she do is work,deal /chicken, hang Olivia and her hubs and watch tv and rinderpest and repeat til Edward ? While I've read too many books of late that had too much story and not enough plot or substance or even romance ( werewolf hunter that spent more tim moping at home,drawing,working her garden or going to tea parties than anything else and mooning,dreaming and drawing a sexy local alpha werewolf and yet holding him at arms length because she was taught all werewolves are evil and because she kissed the scientist ( old enough to be her father 50 to her 24) who's lived w/her for years and wasn't interested til recently and even those he's left the planet for a few months after a few kisses she must " remain faithful to him" WTF ? Right ?) But even after that and chomping at the bit to read this for months now ,I was just left w/aaaaaaaaaaaa that was nice ;) Not the reaction I was hoping to feel... Good book,simple story ,just never connected like I wanted to,probably just me,hoping next time I read this I'll be raving about how absolutely awesome this book was!!! But for just go round it was just really,really nice,most than most the stuff I've come across of late but didn't set my heart a flutter like I'd hoped ;) Well except for Edwards few growly alpha moments ;) Ps. Wow!! Wow was that new snippet different or what ?!? Soo not The Assistant or One Night!! Wow,if I didn't remember parts of the Vampires Kiss I wouldn't have thought it was miss Gray... Can't say I'm as excited or as interested as last time but I do like a good menage and "Sharing Del" sounds like it might be especially when a woman has problems w/monogamy like she does, I am intrigued...

This is my second book from Ms. Gray that I have had the delightful pleasure to read. Ms. Gray has a wonderful skill set for writing in this genre. This description of the musings and interactions of the two main lovers is artfully and sinfully, panty combustible hot! The pacing is excellent and creates a rapt audience. It is a blissful escape which every reader of romance craves.

This was a good read, not as good as The Assistant to me, but when I downloaded the free sample it did peak my curiosity. Although much like The Assistant this one had a twist with was interesting from the male perspective, though I would have to go back several times when they switch between the main characters inner dialogue....it wasn't always clear. I did finish the book in one day. Just a good read, nothing special to me, nice that they brought Lina and Aiden in this book, but totally changed the personalities from the previous book and I did not like that!

Defo worth reading. Great story line which don't get u bored so worth reading as it can be a stand alone

I downloaded the kindle edition to see if it lives up to the name and was waiting to read how the one night stand goes bad. It doesn't at all. Adult romance, has enough amount of story to keep you going. The chemistry between Kate or Katie and Edward is what makes you keep reading the book till the very end. Her no-nonsense Cat has too much of character, I'd say for a pet cat but well it felt nice to know that the Cat knew who her Pet mom wanted! Couldnt put it down. Finished it in 14 hours non -stop! You would too if you are missing some action in life :) Here is another romance novel, for all those horny deprived souls, available online on Amazon. You will enjoy the plot mainly comprising of ticking passion bomb waiting to explode between the Assistant and the Boss. Pros: Makes a good read to fire up your imagination! Plot is decently laid out. Not the regular Mills and Boon Helps to build the vocabulary for a lot of kinky, nonsense stuff! Available in Kindle version too, helps keep such books under wraps from curious onlookers like parents, spouses and Kids! Cons Repetitive story line with so much focus on geeting off the clothes that not much remains once they have their clothes on

enjoyed the book

This was a great read

This book really wasn't for me it seemed repetitive I stopped half way through reading to find another book to read! It didn't grab me first off but tried to give it a shot as past reads have caught me of guard with terrible beginnings with fab endings! But not this one Edward having conversations with his wife who'd passed just weird , not a fan of this one