One Night with You (Montgomery Ink Legacy #7)
Carrie Ann Ryan
Blurb:
Never fall for your best friend.
That’s the rule.
The code.
Claire Harlow
always follows rules—except this one.
However, when an
attack leaves both of their worlds shaken, she decides to walk away from what
could have been and hide within her own shadows.
Kingston
Montgomery is the man who saves the day.
At least that’s
what he’s always told himself—until one day he was too late.
Now he’s trying
to find his purpose while also ignoring the heat between him and Claire.
When a chance
blizzard changes their plans, one night turns to two…and then there’s no going
back.
Only the two must
overcome what they thought their relationship should be and realize what it
could become. Because if they don’t figure it out quickly, the spark that
ignites them could burn them both.
Themes: Contemporary
Rating: 4.5 stars
Heat Rating:
Review:
Kingston
Montgomery is going through the paces of his life, trying to find his way and
accept that there are some things that he can’t change—such as the fact that
his friend Claire has been avoiding him ever since he let her get badly hurt in
an attack. Claire Harlow is definitely avoiding Kingston, but not for the
reasons he thinks. She doesn’t blame him for her injuries, but she can’t be
around him anymore because her feelings have become more than she can handle
since the attack and she doesn’t know what comes next for them. But when a friend group weekend in the
mountains turns into the two of them stranded alone in a snowstorm, things
quickly heat up and soon they are friends with some seriously hot benefits. The
more time they spend together though, the more both of them begin to understand
their feelings are so much deeper than just friendship and lust, leading them
to question is they should give a relationship a real shot, but can they get
over their pasts and all the problems they each worry about in order to have a
future together, or will they have to walk away from the most important
relationship either of them have ever found in their lives.
Talk
about two characters that are so lost in their heads that they don’t realize
the perfect person for them is right in front of them! Claire went through a
very traumatic experience at the hands of a psycho, but she is slowly (very slowly)
finding her way out of that darkness, but she really needs to talk to someone
and let others help her more. She is a smart, classy, sweet, and loving woman,
but she so often refuses to lean on those she loves and instead depend on
herself that she forgets that part of loving someone is being there for them
and letting them be there for you. I really enjoyed seeing her finally open her
heart as Kingston got through to her and made her accept his help and support,
and of course the more time she spent being absorbed into the Montgomery cult,
the more obvious it was how much she needed them. Kingston is obviously a
protector, one that when he fails on that job (even just in his eyes) he
flounders for a while and has to work hard to redirect himself. Almost losing
Claire left him in a dark place, but when he finally got to have her in his
life even deeper, showing her his love and protection, you could see him truly
coming back to life. I loved seeing his strength, love, intelligence, honor,
and devotion to his family, but I wouldn’t expect anything less with the triad
he comes from. Truly these two were a match made in heaven and I am so glad we
finally go to see them get their stuff together and admit their feelings for
one another.
Often
we read a story that begins with a couple snowed in together and it leads to
all kinds of naughtiness, but One Night With You is an entirely
different take on that trope if you ask me. Instead of being the climax or the
beginning of their relationship, which was really the catalyst for two people
that had been hiding their feelings to finally just accept that their feelings didn’t
need to be hidden any longer and they could in fact have a relationship
together. For Claire, that night give her the permission she needed to give into
the feelings she’d been surprising from the beginning and give herself to
Kingston, which leads her to find the inner truth she hid from herself that she
loves him more than any man she’s ever been with. Kingston however has been
running form his own feelings so long he still doesn’t understand anything
beyond that one night being the hottest of his life and giving him the
permission he needs to finally pressure the woman that he’s wanted from the
first moment he set eyes on her. Together the two of them have a lot of
emotional drama to work through, and while they almost let it go too late, they
finally admit their love not only to themselves but to one another. That passion
is apparent form the first moment though they try their hardest to hide from it
and when they finally give into it, its hot enough to burn down the winder forest
around the cabin where they find themselves trapped. I am dying for the next
book (Accidentally
Forever) where Carrie Ann is determined to drive us insane for sure
with Aria and Crew’s crazy passion and
heat, though in between we will have a new connected series beginning (Always a Fake
Bridesmaid) which looks to be interesting too. I’m never sure how she does it but Ms. Ryan
always finds a way to take us on a roller coaster and finally leave you begging
for more and ONWY is a prime example of that torture, so run right out and grab
your copy on release day!
*eARC provided by author for the
purpose of an honest and unbiased review.
No compensation was provided.
