A Novel with Thoughts and Ponderings

ONE PERFECT NIGHT

Author: Rachel Johns ISBN: 9781426892738 12/2011 CONTEMPORARY Publisher: CARINA PRESS

One Perfect Night by Rachel Johns
Peppa Grant's fellow employees may call their new CEO Mr. McSexy, but she's also heard that he's aloof and distant. Cameron McCormac certainly seems cold toward Christmas when she meets him at the company's annual party...but he's also the sexiest man Peppa has ever seen. And when he offers to forgive the damage she accidentally caused to his expensive car in exchange for accompanying him to his family's holiday get-together, she agrees.

Cameron needs a date to the family party to get his matchmaking relatives off his back. Their chemistry is instant and undeniable, leading to an incredible one-night stand. But Peppa wants love and family, while Cameron's only interested in temporary pleasure. When their relationship takes an unexpectedly serious turn, will he run the other way—or will he give love a second chance?

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

On her way to perform for her company’s holiday party, Penelope Grant dents the CEO’s Lamborghini and it leads her down a path she could have never imagined.  After losing his wife, Cameron McCormac swears off emotional entanglements and does a great job of it, until he meets a Penelope in all her fairy glory, and convinces her to pose as his girlfriend to keep his family from setting him up for the holidays again.  What starts off as one night together, quickly turns into a romantic affair.

ONE PERFECT NIGHT starts off a bit rocky, but gets better as it continues.  The premise was interesting, but I felt like the author could have executed it a little better.  One of the problems may have been that Rachael Johns takes on too much.  She has an orphaned widower in her hero and a woman who wants a huge family, but recently miscarried, resulting in fertility issues in her heroine.  It was heavy at times in a story that seemed like the author was trying to keep things light.  I wish that she had included more of Cameron’s family, since that was the reason for bringing Penelope into his life.  In the end, it was an okay read, just not as memorable as it could have been.

Christina Baker

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