Review: Full of Everything that Makes a Great Romantic Suspense!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2014
One More Night is the third installment in the Seductive Nights series by NY Times and USA Today best-selling author Lauren Blakely.  Readers have already claimed Clay Nichols as their latest book boyfriend, and One More Night merely confirms that he’s earned that title fair and square.Clay wants to spend a romantic weekend with Julia, and what better place to do that than in Las Vegas?  Readers of this series know that one of Julia’s passions – besides Clay, of course… oh, and mixing up a batch of her now famous Purple Snow Globes – is playing poker.  With the threat of the mob behind her, Julia can, once again, enjoy playing poker for the sheer sport of it, so Clay decides that Las Vegas is the perfect weekend destination, and he plans to make this weekend even more memorable as he enlists the help of his brother to surprise Julia with a proposal.  Unfortunately, work calls Clay away for an emergency meeting in Los Angeles, after which a comedy of errors keeps him from immediately jetting back to her.  In the meantime, left on her own in the City of Sin, Julia cannot shake the strange feeling that she’s being watched, and when a friendly Pit Boss invites her to the casino’s high-stakes poker lounge, what promises to be a pleasant and distracting game of poker turns dangerous and threatening.Okay, so let me just put this out there now.  If I didn’t think Clay was the “bee’s knees” before, omigod am I a believer now!  This man personifies sexy and romantic.  Julia knows Clay wants to propose, and she hopes she knows he’s going to pop the question this weekend, but Clay knows this woman oh so well.  Clay wants his proposal to be unexpected, so he cleverly concocts a strategy to throw Julia off the scent.  From a surprise private jet ride (perfect for a little “mile-high” distraction), to his plan to shower her with gifts, including a very sexy strand of pearls (and all that that implies), a custom-made Purple Snow Globe necklace (in honor of her successful contract with a liquor distributor), and, … you guessed it, a specially-selected engagement ring, Clay had me swooning at page one.  (Is here where I mention that the opening scene is… you guessed it… in the back of a limo?)One More Night is chocked full of so many of the things that make a great romantic suspense.  The element of danger we’ve come to expect where Julia is concerned, and even with her debt to the mob paid in full, both Clay and Julia start to wonder if she will ever really be free from Charlie and his influences.  Clay, of course, is committed to keeping Julia safe at all costs.  (Queue dreamy sigh here).  I’m a sucker for the romance, and One More Night definitely delivers that too.  Of course, what romance would be complete without a little, or a lot, of heat, and when it comes to Clay, we’re not just talking Nevada summer desert heat here.  These two between the sheets (or in the back of a limo, or on an airplane, or under the famous Las Vegas sign, or… well, you get the picture) are the stuff of spontaneous combustion.  Holy moly, we’re gonna need some ice water over here!One More Night is a wonderful HOT summer surprise.5 suspenseful and seductive stars.