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One Gentle Knight (Kimani Romance)

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I love romance books and although I have read some silly ones written by women along comes a man who writes one of the most silliest supposed romance books I've read in a while. What prompted me to buy it in the first place was because the author was a male.
In reading it I found that the hero and the heroine truly deserved one another (and not in a good way) but rather because I found them equally annoying. Between his selfishness and their shared immaturity, I only finished this predictable, aggravating mess because I paid for it. I mean come on! All they had in common was physical lust. And if I had to read one more time of how beautiful she was I was going to scream. If she'd only had been written with brains and a backbone too.
What mature woman, becomes pregnant, decides to have the baby, decides to tell the father, (whom she barely knows) but doesn't tell him nor is encouraged by her supposed best friend to tell the father about her past immediatley. A past that included marriage and the tragic deaths of both her husband and child due to the same accident. Then she has the audacity to lament like an inexperienced teenage girl over the fact he doesn't jump for joy at the news that he's going to be a father due to a no-strings attached sex romp with a total stranger.
I commend the hero for raising his brother and sister after the death of their parents, which was his one redeeming quality to me but Shayne and Carla had no depth. Although after the fact, I kept waiting on them to really talk to one another or have some kind of a real blow-out argument instead, I could have cared less if they got together or not. This was indeed African-American fiction with no true romance in sight.

I loved this novel!!!!! I have read books that have put tears in my eyes before, but there were a couple of scenes in this book that really pulled at my heart. The love scenes were awesome as well. This is the third book that I have read from Mr. Jordan and it runs in close with his Capture the sunrise, if not better. It is very refreshing to find a man who is able to write romance as well as women have done in the past. I CANNOT wait for the next installment of the Knight family. I'm looking forward to getting to know Russell and Tamara.

"One Gentle Knight" by Wayne Jordan was my first time reading one of Mr. Jordan's book. I loved it. Shayne Knight was indeed one gentle Knight. Even though he engaged in a "one night stand" with Carla Nevins, it was not his intentions. However, being the responsible man that Shayne was, he had to put business before pleasure. Shayne was the oldest of three siblings. His brother and sister, twins -- Russell and Tamara were too young to worry about the family business when their parents were tragically killed in a car accident. Therefore, Shayne, a young man himself, shouldered the responsibility of not only caring for the business, but also caring for Russell and Tamara.

Ironically, the time when Shayne decides he need some R&R time, he goes to the island and as if magically, Carla is also there and they meet. Each senses the other and things or rather, clothing items, take off from there. As with magic, even though the feelings are still there, when the night is over and Carla wakes up, she wakes up alone. Shayne is nowhere to be found. Carla does find Shayne's note, but the note is sketchy and does not say much. Carla wonders and begin to doubt, was it indeed just a hasty, one night stand? Did she, a grown woman, who is also a widow, after losing her husband and their child in a tragic car accident, also lose her senses and become involved with a man she just met -- one she knows nothing about? Will she or does she now regret what she -- no they did during the night?

After Shayne does not return, Carla cuts her vacation short and return home to the United States to try to forget all about the mysterious man. However, she has a surprise, one that will always remind her of Shayne. After approx three months have passed, Carla realizes that she is and it is confirmed that Carla is pregnant. Carla tells her friend, Sandra what happened and Carla decides she must tell Shayne face to face that he will be a father, but she does not want any strings attached. Little does Carla know that Shayne has also been missing her. Although both have issues, they also have a child between them. Therefore, their lives have been changed and they have been bonded together forever.

Carla and Shayne love each other, but both are to stubborn to realize it and even Shayne's housekeeper, Gladys, who is also like a mother to the Knight children, realizes that Shayne and also Carla love one another. Shayne's closest friends, George, who is now a lawyer and Troy, who is a doctor also realize that Carla and Shayne love one another and should be together. However, through much trials and heartship, Carla and Shayne will have to face that reality themselves and make things work for them and their child.

"One Gentle Knight" is the first in the triology about the Knight siblings - Shayne, Tamara, and Russell. All great stories of love, romance, life, and most important, family.

This was the second in the Knight series. I like being reintroduced to the characters. The story line was different and interesting. The chemistry of the main characters was hard to pick up on though.

I loved this story. It was very well written. I felt as though I could smell the food and hear the ocean as I was reading the book. I could not put the book down once I started. The romance sizzled and the secondary characters helped carry the story. I am looking forward to the sequels.

Wayne Jordan has not only given us a glimpse of Barbados (his turf) and sugar plantations, but has introduced us to the Knight family (Shayne, twins Russell and Tamara and housekeeper, Gladys).

Confirmed bachelor and plantation owner, Shayne Knight decides to spend a week just enjoying life after seeing his brother and sister off to begin their graduate studies abroad. At the Hilton Hotel, he meets Virginia travel agent Carla Nevins who is visiting the island for some fun and a good time. The two have a three day affair before Shayne has to return to the plantation for an emergency. Of course, they don't see each other again.

Returning home and four months later, Carla finds out that she is pregnant; she returns to Barbados to inform Shayne he has a child on the way. Shayne convinces Carla that he will do what is right and to stay until the child is born.

The friendship between Shayne and his friends, George and Troy; the all knowing Gladys are realistic as well as Mr. Jordan's descriptions of Carla's pregnancy symptoms and childbirth.

Wayne Jordan has proven that he can write romance(visualizing the front porch scene, Lawdy!),I am anxiously waiting for Russell and Tamara's story.

At the age of twenty-two, Shayne Knight lost his parents, inherited the family sugar plantation, and became father to his younger siblings. Ten years later, his siblings are in college, the business is thriving, and Shayne is redirecting his life. A short vacation, and if he's lucky, a mind-blowing no strings liaison with a willing partner is a good place to start. Carla Nevins, owner of a travel agency in Virginia, is still grieving the loss of her husband and baby, two years ago. Finally taking her best friend's advice, she goes to Barbados for a week of R&R, and maybe a memorable island fling.

Like a scene from a Bogart movie, their eyes connect from across the room. That visual foreplay escalates into two secluded days in paradise, by way of Shayne's hotel suite. On the third day, when Carla awakes, Shane is gone; she is confused and dejected. Two days later, Shayne returns, but Carla has left; and with more than a memorable island fling. Three months have passed, they have not communicated, but the memories are still simmering. Will circumstances force them to toss their 'no-strings' attitude and reach for a date with destiny?

The momentum behind ONE GENTLE KNIGHT is the fervor of the main character, a self-made, compassionate man who has sacrificed his life, but is afraid to give his heart. This is a manly story driven by heated testosterone, and a real look at the fear of love and commitment. Added to his dilemma is the unavoidable fallout when Carla revisits Barbados to do the right thing. ONE GENTLE KNIGHT, set in Jordan's beautiful Barbados, is the first book in the Knight trilogy and the series could not have gotten a better introduction.

Reviewed by aNN
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

Wow, Mr.Jordan has done it again Shayne and Carla's story was to hottt. Strighit out the gate there story was so real all the way. I know at least 5 of my friends whom shell remaine nameless who can relate to the story of the caribbean how they got swept right off of the feet. I truly loved this story I can't wait for TO LOVE A KNIGHT & ALWAYS A KNIGHT. I hope Mr.Jordan will also have a story on Shayne's best friend's Dr.Troy Whitehall and Lawyer George Simpson. What type of woman will take hold of there heart's? Will Sandra Carla's best friend go for the Dr.Troy?

This was actually a nice change. I have read a lot of male authors but none has ever written a romance novel. Welcome Wayne Jordan. This book was awesome. I was a little skeptical at first, when I saw the book and I saw that it was a male author I kept picking it up and putting it down until finally I said "Give him a chance". So now I have just ordered his other two books that he has written. I can't wait to get started on those. Wayne Jordan, keep on writing.

This book about the Knight family is the bomb. The storyline is hot. The main characters Shayne and Carla are hotter and the vivid descriptions of Barbados and the love scenes are fantastic! It will have you imagining that you are there and the love scenes will have you wishing you were Carla! Mercy! You will not put this book down until you finish and you too will be ready for the next installment after reading this great story.