She Ain't The One [Hardcover]

Carl Weber (Author), Mary B. Morrison (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2006

From New York Times bestselling authors Carl Weber and Mary B. Morrison comes this powerful, unforgettable novel about the ultimate player who has finally run into the wrong woman...

After a rocky marriage, irresistibly seductive Jay Crawford is ready for a new woman--and a new challenge. It doesn't take him long to discover both in one fine package: Ashlee Anderson. With a face and body that scream sex, she's just what he's looking for--hard-to-get, feisty, and freaky. But he'd never suspect just how freaky...

Ashlee turns out to be every bit as sexy as Jay suspected. What should've been a one-night stand extends into months of lovemaking that's too hot to give up and designed to burn him like never before. For Ashlee has no intention of letting their relationship ever end. Now Jay is in over his head with a woman who will go to any lengths to possess him. Trouble is, Ashlee's psycho behavior turns him on like nothing else. Maybe they're both crazy. But when Ashlee makes a shocking confession, Jay knows she definitely ain't the one and he's got to get away from her before she completely destroys his life...

"Weber spins a lively, revelation-packed tale deepened by genuine emotion, convincing detail and smart dialogue."--Publishers Weekly on The Preacher's Son

"Morrison delivers a deep, passionate story that holds readers from beginning to end." --Black Issues Book Review on Never Again Once More

Includes a teaser of Carl Weber's Something on the Side and Mary B. Morrison's Sweeter Than Honey

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Bestselling authors Weber and Morrison team up in an experiment that brings together "two of their favorite characters." Texas psycho-hottie Ashlee Anderson flies to D.C. to "spend some time alone" after a nasty breakup, but when she meets Jay Crawford at a club, she's smitten. Jay beds Ashlee, who afterwards flies back to Dallas, stops taking her antidepressants and begins to unravel. As unsubtle indications of Ashlee's mental disorder surface (court-ordered psychiatry, for one), the long-distance romance bumps and grinds along. Jay, whose lust for Ashlee blinds him to her craziness, tries to play down Ashlee's jealousy, but after his ex-girlfriend, Tracy, reappears with his child, Ashlee's manic episodes increase in frequency and intensity, causing Jay to break up with her the night he had planned on proposing. Jay reunites with Tracy, and a scorned Ashlee plots sweet, crazy revenge. The book, were it not hobbled by pedestrian prose ("Expectations were the detour to the demise of my happiness") and a phoned-in portrayal of pathological behavior, could be reminiscent of Fatal Attraction. A sequel is hinted. (Oct.)
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 218 pages
• Publisher: Dafina (October 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758207212
• ISBN-13: 978-0758207210
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (108 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #401,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be Careful What You Wish For, February 9, 2007

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The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers (RAWSISTAZ.com and BlackBookReviews.net) - See all my reviews

This review is from: She Ain't The One (Hardcover)

What do you get when you combine Jay, from Carl Weber's best-selling novel, Married Men and Ashlee, from Mary Morrison's bestselling series? The result of this literary duet is SHE AIN'T THE ONE an explosive, drama-filled page turner.

Ashlee and Jay cross paths when Jay comes to her rescue when an overzealous suitor won't take no for an answer in a D.C. nightclub. During their weekend together, readers learn the positives and negatives; ins and outs of each individual. Ashlee is on the rebound from a dysfunctional, destructive relationship with Darius, the father of her child, to whom she has lost custody due to her psychological issues. Jay is a recent divorcee who moved to D.C. with the hopes of reconnecting with the love of his life. After a series of telephone conversations, a long distance relationship develops between the Ashlee and Jay. However, things don't remain peaceful or happy for long.

Jay returns from a weekend visit with Ashlee and has an unexpected meeting with an old flame. Ashlee does not know whether or not she has been X'ed out of the equation and replaced. Rather than wait to find out, Ashlee begins to do things that make Glenn Close from in Fatal Attraction look sane.

SHE AIN'T THE ONE is a great read. As a reader, I have often wondered what would happen if a character from Author A's book hooked up with a character from Author's B book (you can fill in the blanks). Weber and Morrison have effortlessly seamed together their characters and created a story that could happen in everyday life. I have read the complete collection of both authors and found this novel to be true to both writer's styles. As a matter of fact, I think Morrison wrote Jay's sections and vice-versa. The writing styles of both authors mesh seamlessly, creating a final product that is HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reviewed by Katrina G
for The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No, She Aint The One, November 10, 2006

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Sharel Love "Sharel E. Gordon-Love, Author" (North Plainfield, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: She Ain't The One (Hardcover)

Having been betrayed by her son's father, Darius, Ashlee is on a search to find a way to rid herself of her feelings of love for him. For the life of her, she could not stop loving him, even after he married someone else and had her son taken away from her.

Traveling to D.C., Ashlee meets Jay, a handsome man who she felt approached her with respect, who she soon began to plot and plan to get her claws into. He did not run the usual lines or game on her and Ashlee found herself falling head over heels in love with the obsession of loving Jay.

Jay falls hard himself, having just gone through a divorce and moving to the D.C. area from New York, leaving his two daughters behind with their mother. He was on a search for his son's mother, but in the meantime he meets Ashlee, who is convinced that he has fallen in love with as well. This causes him to miss some of the signs and ignore others as Jay is on a quest to prove not only to himself, but to his boys who admonished him to listen to them. Instead Jay almost hangs himself with a proposal that gets thwarted by the very person he knows he still loves and wants to spend the rest of his life with - his son's mother, Tracy.

Ashlee does not accept and neither does she take kindly to Jay's decision to let her go, so she takes her obsession mode to a heightened level that changes Jay's life and the lives of his children for years to come. Ashlee lets Jay know that she ain't the one to mess with by how she gets back at him for hurting her after giving her the love and loving she so desperately needed and then taking it away before they could complete it. For sure, she ain't the one.

This story of getting even hit new highs and lows as Authors Weber and Morrison co-write this story, their voices complimenting and bouncing off of one another.


Review by Sharel E. Gordon-Love
Apooo BookClub

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This b---- is crazy!!!!, May 14, 2007

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token (ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: She Ain't The One (Hardcover)

I guess Ashlee was not the one in this book, this girl flipped out and was tripped out,sometimes u can see where she was coming from Jay doing her like he did,but the title should've been This B---- Is Crazy!!!