Book Title: That One Night (That One Series: Book One)
Author: Josie Wright
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions
All it takes is just one moment to change the course of your life. For me, it was one perfect night.
I have always had a thing for my brother’s best friend, Ben. When I found him on my parents’ couch, drowning his sorrows in a whiskey bottle, my attempts to comfort him quickly turned into a night of raw and intense passion.
My foolish heart hoped he might feel the same way I do.
But Ben wasn’t there to stay and I woke up the next morning alone with a broken heart.
I attempted to forget the guy with a smile to die for and a touch that sets me on fire.
I thought I was over him.
I thought he was gone forever.
Until, eighteen months later Ben returns and learns my secret. Now, he is hell-bent on winning me back.
He plays dirty.
And he won’t stop until he gets what he wants—me.
But he has secrets of his own.
Secrets that could destroy everything we might have and everything we are.
We more or less jog back to the house, talking a lot of non-sense and laughing. I blame it on the cold or the sudden influx of fresh air to our brains. When the house comes into sight, he nudges my shoulder.
“Whoever gets to the house first, gets a wish?”
“What, do I look like a genie?”
“No, but I can rub you places if you want.” He smirks at me.
I bump into him, making him step off the paved road and fight for balance, before I sprint ahead like a bat out of hell and yell behind me. “Dream on. I’ll so win. And then you’ll be my bitch.” I’m running so fast I can actually feel my lungs burn. I suppose running after a toddler isn’t exactly the same as working out. And yoga doesn’t seem to have done much for my stamina. I feel like I’m going to collapse, but I’m not willing to give up. I have about hundred feet left to run when I can hear his footsteps behind me.
When he passes me, he doesn’t seem to be out of breath at all.
“Who’s going to be whose bitch, huh? Is that all you got Gilbert?”
Such a cocky fucker. He overtakes me and gets to the house before me, casually leaning against the porch while I trot over there feeling like death warmed over. It’s not fair. He looks absolutely breathtaking, the way he has his arms crossed over his chest, his feet are crossed at his ankles while his body is leaning against the bars of the porch railing. His head is tilted slightly back, nearly reaching the handrail. He has a shit-eating grin on his face.
I give him a death glare and am about to walk past him up the stairs onto the porch, when he grabs my arm and yanks me toward him. He turns me so my back is now against the porch and cages me in with each hand grabbing one of the bars on either side of my head. Suddenly, breathing becomes even more difficult.
“What about my wish? You won’t go back on your word, will you, Frankie?”
I can only shake my head. You know, like intelligent people do. Forming coherent words and phrases...pfft, so over it.
“Good,” is all he says before he lowers his head, coming closer and closer. I feel like I’m going to faint. I know I should stop this. I know it isn’t the best idea. I know it could break my heart, again. Chances are it will. And if it breaks this time, if he breaks it this time, there won’t be a coming back from it. Knowing all of this, I still can’t manage to tell my heart to stop doing the little somersaults and I can’t tell those damn butterflies in my stomach to chill the fuck out. Instead, I lick my lips in anticipation. When his lips eventually connect to mine, I feel like my lungs are finally able to fill with air. It feels as if I’ve been holding my breath forever—not just the last minute, but the past eighteen months. His lips are soft, yet demanding against mine and his tongue is insisting on getting access. I part my lips slowly, not expecting my body betraying me. When his tongue connects with mine, a quiet whimper sneaks past my lips—but not quiet enough. Ben hears it and it seems to spur him on. He presses his body closer to mine, his tongue engaging mine in a dirty little tango. We’re lost in the moment, in the sensation of tasting each other. When the front door opens, we both startle and quickly step away from each other—like two teenagers nearly caught by their parents. He seems to be able to get his bearings quicker than I do, sidestepping me and walking up the stairs.
Josie Wright has always been a bookworm, spending every free moment with her nose buried in a book. While others were out partying, she spent her evenings with Heathcliff, Sydney Carton or Snape. Romance, fantasy, thrillers - you name it, she read it.
Thanks to the Kindle, she finally arrived in the 21St century and discovered the Indie literature world. Josie has been lost to it ever since. With her love for the written word and her promiscuous feelings for countless book boyfriends, the next logical step was to start writing. The voices in her head and her imaginary friends wanted out to play and so she wrote her debut novel "That One Night", that's to be released early summer 2015. And the good news is, there are more voices and imaginary friend where Ben and Frankie came from.
Josie is a financial expert by day and a writing junkie by night. The rest of the time she's a bit of a hippie, a bit of a goth and many things in between. Josie loves to spend time with her husband when she can tear herself away from her book boyfriends. She loves video games, movies, good food and even better music. She's addicted to chips, long baths and shoes. Oh, and books of course. Definitely books.
REVIEW
4 stars
This is Josie Wright's debut novel but doesn't read like one.
I'm usually not big on YA stories, there are only a few authors who can write the genre at a level that keeps me reading their series and Josie Wright is now on that short list.
That One Night is pretty self explanatory, yes the title means exactly what you think it does. That being said the whole story is not predictable, I'd say it's 50/50.
Frankie has always been in love with her brothers best friend Ben. But Ben's always treated her as what she is, his friends little sister.
Until one night when Frankie finds Ben completely broken and is his life line.
The next morning all she finds is a one word note.
Now 18 months later she's on her way home for the holidays and she's about to get a surprise.
Her parents are disappointed in the direction her life has taken but that's nothing compared to coming face to face with the one person who can turn her new life upside down.
Ben is home for the first time in a year and a half, well as close to home as he wants to be an that's with his best friends family. Then in walks the girl he walked away from after she saved him from himself. He knows what happened was a mistake but not for the reasons your thinking. Ben always wanted Frankie but regrets that it happened the way it did and that he disappeared after. Ben had found out a secret that literally turned his world upside down and the only way he knew to handle it was to run. Now he's back and knows he will come face to face with Frankie, and while he's ready to see her again he's shocked by who she brings home with her.
Now Frankie has to decide if she wants to fight for the only man she's ever loved, while Ben has to come to terms with what happened all those months ago and how it affects his life now. He has to try to earn Frankie's trust and show her how he feels.
Ben is so freaking amazing, Frankie I liked as well but Ben blew her out of the water, no competition at all!
That One Night has love, loss, a touch of drama, some amazing friends and family, one man who's dead set on what he wants and a girl who's grown up in the past two years and realized what is most important in her life.
This one's a must read and I'm sure a few months from now I'll be reading it again.
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