Review: What A Read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
One Night With Him is a brilliant debut novel by author K.S. Smith. From the get go there is excitement, humour, action and by action I mean, 15 plus drunk women at a bachelorette party dancing on tables and downing $500 bottles of patron like it is water.Regan Larson had no choice other than to down her drinks and get extremely drunk because the bride to be is her best friend, sister from another mister, Addison and she demands everyone to be legless by the time her send off from singlehood is over. Regan didn't mind getting drunk, it would take her mind of her extremely busy maid of honour schedule and allow her to relax some before the big day of the wedding rolled around and she would be nothing other than a ball of stress, nerves and emotion.The only down side to drunk Regan - that she can find - is that she turns into a outspoken, dirty talking, hussy. I personally think there nothing wrong with that but for straight laced Regan, she likes control and being drunk and not in her right mind leads to her doing things she wouldn't normally do, like extremely sexy men who find picking up her $2000 alcohol bill amusing and most definitely intriguing instead of shocked and pissed off.Let me introduce Cole Conrad, a successful businessman, drop dead gorgeous millionaire and the soon to be star of many ladies dreams. I liked him from the start, he is a strong character, not an alpha male but his definitely all man, his description is simply mind porn.Regan and Cole meet at the bar of Addison's father nightclub where the bachelorette party is being held and after an amusing conversation, Regan foots him with her bill and bails leaving him staring after her speechless. Regan thinks she was witty and clever, thinking she would never see him again but fate has other plans because a few more drinks later and she finds her in his hotel room then waking up in his bedroom. Like I said, she is straight laced and when she realises what happen she just cannot believe she had a one night stand with a man she knew nothing about, not even his name. Branding herself as a slut, she gathers her things and bails out on Cole without even saying goodbye.She puts it all at the back of her mind, determined to focus on Addison's wedding instead of the beautiful stranger who rocked her world. Everything was fine and dandy until Regan comes face to face with said beautiful stranger...at the wedding rehearsals...standing next to Casey - Addison's fiancé -...because he is his best man.Once Regan and Cole realise what is happening they are both pissed for different reasons. Regan is mad because he reminds her of what happened between them, reminds her that she lost control. She is beyond pissed that the mere sight of him makes her burn with need to touch him.Cole is pissed for an entirely different reason, he is mad that Regan bailed on him without so much as a goodbye. Trusted he has done the early morning bail routine more than once himself with a number of women but now that its happened to him, he doesn't like it, not one bit. He was certain the he was happy in his bachelor lifestyle but he wants more, needs more. The fact that he is drawn to Regan like he has never been to a woman before seals his fate and hers.He wants her and regardless if she wants a relationship or not he is going to fight for her.Things between them were already complicated but throw in two eager best friends, over loads from work and an certain woman with her sights set on Cole and we have a party that Addison's bachelorette party couldn't even rival with.