The Morning After [Kindle Edition]

Sally Clements (Author)

Book Description

One photo changes everything...
A mortifying incident in her youth has shaken sense into Cara Byrne. No more bad-boys. No more getting arrested. Instead, hard work and good behaviour has earned her a job teaching at the local Boys Secondary School, and a proposal from a worthy man. So what if he doesn't exactly light her fire - surely passion is overrated?
When her friend since childhood, Ethan Quinn, storms back into the small Irish village he left to pursue a career as a Hollywood action hero, she's stunned to discover she's as susceptible to his lethal charm as every woman in the world. And when a compromising photograph floods the media of them in a clinch, her almost fiancé reveals his true colours, CarEthan starts trending on twitter, and she loses her job, could anyone blame her if she accepts his invitation to hide out at his Malibu beach house?
Ethan loves women, but never lets his girlfriends into his heart. He's failed at being there in the past, and won't put his heart on the line for anyone, ever again. But Cara's a different matter - and when passionate attraction is added to his friendship with the one person he's always confided in, he's thrown for a loop. Cara's lost everything, and like it or not, he's responsible. There's no fighting the attraction that blazes between them - but when the month long affair is over, will he ever be able to let her go?

Heat Level: Spicy

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Sally Clements writes romance. Her first book, Catch Me A Catch, came out in 2010 and was a finalist in the RNA Joan Hessayon Award for new fiction. It features a chocolatier reluctantly forced to turn matchmaker for a matchmaking festival in her small Irish town, and a transatlantic sailor who's not looking for love! In 2011, she published Bound to Love, a romantic suspense, Marrying Cade, the story of a woman who finally gets the chance to seduce her childhood crush when he returns to Tuscan island, Isola dei Fiori (and then wonders if that's a good idea after all), and in Feb 2012 published The Morning After. Later in 2012 she will publish Love on the Vine, a sweet romance about a frenchman transplanted to a vineyard in California soil, and the woman he first meets when he finds her swimming in his lake (naked!).

Product Details

• File Size: 300 KB
• Print Length: 132 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0075VFMCI
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,125 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly Enjoyed It! February 24, 2012

By Cocktails and Books

Format:Kindle Edition

This was one of those books that when you read the blurb you think "I'll give it a try" and hope for the best. I'm glad I tried it.

Ethan and Cara have been best friends forever. They've seen each other through thick and thin. And while the Atlantic Ocean separates them most of the time, they are still there for each. So when Ethan spies Cara's boyfriend being overly friendly with a woman in a local bar in Ireland, he takes it upon himself to punch said boyfriend and make sure the boyfriend knew he was going to be an ex very soon. Ethan is then on a mission to find Cara to make sure she knew that the man who proposed to her was out cheating on her. When he finds her, she's stuck in a Winnie-the-Pooh costume in nothing but her underwear. As he helps her out, a photog snaps a couple of shots of them in a compromising position. It's one of those photos that changes everything for Ethan and Cara.

The change from best friends to lovers played out exactly like I'd imagine the scenario playing out. They both have these feelings they aren't sure the other one is feeling as well. They both decide to throw caution to the wind and move the relationship forward. And finally they both realize they feel much more than friendship for the other but can't read how the other is feeling and are scared to find out what they feel isn't reciprocated. And while there wasn't any surprise to how the story evolved, the characters were very down to earth and likeable that you hoped the path to get to their HEA was an easy one.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet Romance March 1, 2012

By Too Critical?

Format:Kindle Edition

This was a very sweet romance story, with delightfully written scenes and engaging characters. The author did a terrific job of describing the story in a way that you could easily visualize it. The romance was not too far fetched, and my only regret was that the book wasn't longer. I would have enjoyed spending another hour or two with this couple!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable March 2, 2012

By bookophile

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

This was my first book by this author but you can be sure I will be looking out for her name to read more of her work. This was a quick and enjoyable read, but the character development and the handling of emotions were very well done.

More About the Author

Sally Clements lives and writes in the Irish countryside near Dublin. Always a voracious reader (and with a healthy book buying habit) she found the jump into writing a natural one, as it is the thing she likes to do more than anything else!
She writes romance.
Her blog is at www.sallyclements.blogspot.com, and she's a twitter addict who loves meeting new people, @sallywriter