About Last Night: A Loveswept Contemporary Romance [Kindle Edition]

Ruthie Knox (Author)

Book Description

Sure, opposites attract, but in this sexy, smart, eBook original romance from RITA finalist and USA Today bestselling author Ruthie Knox, they positively combust! When a buttoned-up banker falls for a bad girl, "about last night" is just the beginning.



Cath Talarico knows a mistake when she makes it, and God knows she's made her share. So many, in fact, that this Chicago girl knows London is her last, best shot at starting over. But bad habits are hard to break, and soon Cath finds herself back where she has vowed never to go . . . in the bed of a man who is all kinds of wrong: too rich, too classy, too uptight for a free-spirited troublemaker like her.



Nev Chamberlain feels trapped and miserable in his family's banking empire. But beneath his pinstripes is an artist and bohemian struggling to break free and lose control. Mary Catherine--even her name turns him on--with her tattoos, her secrets, and her gamine, sex-starved body, unleashes all kinds of fantasies.


When blue blood mixes with bad blood, can a couple that is definitely wrong for each other ever be perfectly right? And with a little luck and a lot of love, can they make last night last a lifetime?



Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: Because of You, Ride with Me, and Midnight Hour.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Readers will cheer for the cautious Cath and wish that they had a their own Nev!" --RT Book Reviews, 4.5 stars

"A terrifically warm and funny contemporary romance . . . highly recommended for lovers of contemporary romance and chick lit." --Library Journal XPress Reviews

"A sensuous treat with passion and compassion, humor and originality. I highly recommend it." --Jane Bowers, Romance Reviews Today

"About Last Night is fabulous! I couldn't put it down, I laughed out loud at Cath's attitude, and I'm still crying at the ending. So totally romantic!" --Drey's Library

"A page-turner, full of sex, sizzle, and heart." --Susan Andersen, New York Times best-selling author of Playing Dirty

"About Last Night is a standout, filled with wit, romance, and charm." --Lori Wilde, New York Times best-selling author

"Funny, unabashedly sexy, and at times achingly emotional, About Last Night kept me ripping through the pages to get to the happily ever after. Ruthie Knox is a unique, fresh voice in romance. I highly recommend her!" ---Jaci Burton, New York Times best-selling author

"I fell for Ruthie Knox's hero, I cheered for her heroine...and I simply adored everything about their love story! About Last Night is an absolutely wonderful romance." ---Bella Andre, best-selling author of I Only Have Eyes for You

"Smart and sexy . . . About Last Night is absolutely irresistible." ---Shiloh Walker, best-selling author of the Ash Trilogy

"If only all romances were this funny, smart, sexy, and real!" ---Isabel Sharpe, Harlequin Blaze

Product Details

• File Size: 1942 KB
• Print Length: 248 pages
• Publisher: Loveswept (June 11, 2012)
• Sold by: Random House Digital, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B006XWY424
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,133 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh, What A Night! June 11, 2012

By Pat Fordyce

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

This ARC I received from a contest sponsored by Romance @ Random and Ruthie Knox. It was downloaded from Kindle @ NetGalley.

This novel gives us a very unlikely Hero and Heroine. Catherine Marie Talarico is an asst. curator at Victoria and Albert Museum, and is working on an exhibit tracing the history of Hand Knitting. She has moved to London after deciding to start over with her life. She is known, in her head, as New Cath. Bad Cath, her previous life, had a series of pitfalls, heartache and even a short arrest. She has chronicled these mishaps with tattoos of various colors and sizes, to always remind her of these mistakes, and to help her not to repeat the past. She takes a train, every morning to her job, and realizes after sitting every day, there are a series of people that ride with her so she decides to name them. Pigeon Man is the first we meet, but there are several more, including our Hero...City Boy.
City Boy, is a tall, very good lucking blonde , to Cath he is" Prince Charming in a suit." In truth, he is a very wealthy Londoner, very unhappy as a banker in his family's business. He would like nothing more than to lose the suit for a pair of well worn jeans, and a paint splattered t-shirt. His name is Neville Chamberlain, preferring to be called Nev.

Cath is suckered into joining her friend for a blind date, which is a disaster as she had expected. She resorts to wine to dull her senses and get her through the night. The drink, K-12, is offered, after she sobs over the classic Patsy Cline song, Crazy. It brings back some of the good memories she had before she was Bad Cath. The K-12 was the last thing she remembers! She wakes up in a strangers bed, (guess who?) realizing she has taken "a pretty catastrophic fall off the reform wagon!"
So, you'll have to read the book for the details. The back and forth between Nev and Cath is very entertaining. They both fear commitment, and feel neither one is good enough for the other. But...they can't fight their attraction! The love scenes are plentiful, and HOT! Long before either wants to admit it, we know they are in love.

I so enjoyed this book, even more than her first novel, Ride With Me, which I loved! I would recommend this novel to anyone who loves contemporary Romance, with a side of humor, and even a tear or two. Thank you Ruthie Knox for this wonderful story, and hopefully on to the next!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read!!! June 11, 2012

By Elizabeth Brown

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I loved both Cath and Nev. Both had seen each other for sometime in passing at the park and train station, but only when Cath ends up drunk and Nev comes to the rescue, do they really find one another. I really liked that Cath called Nev "City" most of the time, since that was the nickname she had come up with for him when she saw him around. Liked even more that Nev pretty much always called her by her full name, Mary Catherine. It was just so sweet.

Not that either didn't have a few secrets not shared with the other. While Cath's secrets were from her past, Nev's secrets had to do with his present. Even secrets and different lifestyles can't seem to stop the attraction between them. Cath and Nev have some of the best chemistry together. Their love scenes were so steamy, I thought my kindle screen would fog up a few times.

Secrets do have a way of coming out at the worst possible time. Nev's really wasn't that bad, although when it was revealed made it seem worse. When Cath shared her secrets, it brought me to tears. I had grown so attached to both characters, I hated to see and feel her pain. Nev really does have to step up his game to make things right with her.

In just the 2 books I've read from Ruthie Knox, I've seen great emotional range and she is now an auto-buy author for me. I love that I not only get super sexy scenes, but heart-felt emotion with each relationship. About Last Night is another winner from Ruthie Knox.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Good beginning but irritating in the final analysis October 4, 2012

By Mountaineer

Format:Kindle Edition

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Content: Explicit sex, various cuss words and profanity.
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Just barely 3 stars. Sorry to say, I liked Ruthie Knox's first book MUCH better: Ride with Me: A Loveswept Contemporary Romance. This book started off superbly, but in the end I found it absurdly melodramatic, with wildly shifting character portrayals, concluding with ridiculously improbable plot contortions.

But still okay. Knox writes well, with sexy love scenes, tender moments and flowing dialogue. I really liked the beginning of this book. It was the best part, up through the first third of the book. I loved how sexy and tender Nev was with his Mary Catherine.

The 3rd person POV shifted around from Nev to Cath, which I appreciate.

Character flaws: In a romance novel, I need to sympathize with and/or admire the hero and heroine. At first I liked Mary Catherine a lot -- someone I would want to hang with. But by the end, she sympathized too much with herself, holding her old wounds close, and glorifying her tragic past with tattoos. She blamed Nev (aka City) for not believing in her, when SHE had been the one to replace real intimacy with sex. For 75% of the book, she kept secrets from her lover, never revealing her horribly sad past, even though he asked. Instead, she replaced emotional bonding with sex. Lots and lots of sex.

Meanwhile, I liked Nev, but halfway through, he slipped out of character. At first, he seemed strong yet tender, and totally devoted to Cath. Then, he became a momma's boy and a wuss. The worst was when he...

(SPOILERS AHEAD!!)

...used Cath to get a promotion at work. In order to be promoted at the bank, he needed to be engaged within a month (that old trope). So what does he do? He takes Catherine home to the family mansion and presents her to his aristo parents as his wife, and he doesn't even tell her why he asked her to play along wih the charade. So....he loved her and wanted to marry her, but thought nothing of falsely presenting her to his family as his wife to secure the position at the bank?? And when the s*** hit the fan, he stood there lamely, and did not defend her to his family. I was puzzled by this -- so weak, deceptive, totally out of character for the Nev I knew.

Annoying scene: At the bus stop outside the family pile, Cath rips off her shirt in front of old ladies, a man, and a teenage boy (!!!) so she can wallop Nev with her tale of woe, and bludgeon him with guilt for all she suffered in her past? Each tattoo on her back and tummy reminds her of a big screw up in her life. In this scene, Mary Catherine becomes an even greater prima donna: Melodramatic and self-absorbed, even a little vindictive towards Nev. The whole bus stop scene was in poor taste -- I lost sympathy for her, when originally I was in her court.

Two eye-rolling improbabilities towards the end:

1) I could not believe Nev could a) find a venue for his new art gallery, b) remodel and paint it, c) advertise his first-ever art show, AND d) paint 5 huge (!!!) show-ready paintings of Cath in a MONTH (!!!) in time for opening night at the art gallery -- his way to win Cath back. All of this was conceptualized and accomplished in 30 days? I think not. Not even for the rich. And over the top. It did nothing for me.

2) Meanwhile, from her hurt pride, Cath convinces the museum director to REFUSE a DONATION of $100,000.00 from a respected art patron?? Bloody not gonna happen! In what reality?? Total nonsense.

Hardly any humor in the book. For a fun and sexy read, I HIGHLY recommend Knox's first book, Ride with Me: A Loveswept Contemporary Romance

*****

More About the Author

Ruthie Knox graduated from Grinnell College as an English and history double major and went on to earn a Ph.D. in modern British history that she's put to remarkably little use. She debuted as a romance novelist with Ride with Me--probably the only existing cross-country bicycling love story yet to be penned--and followed it up with About Last Night, which features a sizzling British banker hero with the unlikely name of Neville. She moonlights as a mother, Tweets incessantly, and bakes a mean focaccia.