Romance in Suburbia: One Night Stand by Cindy Kirk
One Night Stand by Cindy Kirk
Reviewed by: Mayra David
Marcee Robbens’ life is everything it should be: She lives in vibrant
Chicago, her career is right on track, she
goes out and she dates. She is having the kind of fun any young, hot,
independent woman should be having. Though there is a tiny pang of envy
whenever she thinks of her best friend Jenny getting married, Marcee’s
not ready for marriage at all! In fact, instead of looking for a
potential boyfriend among the tuxedo-clad eligible men at the wedding,
all she wants is a one night stand.
A great one night stand: that is what Marcee is looking for and planning for. She sets her sights on gorgeous Sam McKelvey. He’s perfect in every way for her purposes: He’s sexy, unattached, and so obviously wants her. But after getting him into her hotel room, Sam seems determined to talk, and get to know each other first. The more they talk, the more Marcee likes him, which taints her idea of a casual, impersonal night together. But their time together is better than she could have imagined; after they spend the night together, Marcee would like nothing more than to stay entangled with Sam for a while longer.
The
last thing Sam McKelvey needs is to get involved with a woman. He’s
promised himself to focus all his energy on his teenaged daughter. He
feels as though Fern is slipping away from him as fast as she is
growing up. He decides to move them out of the city and into a small
town at the outskirts of
Unfortunately
for Sam, small town life doesn’t seem to be the answer to his problems.
Soon after they move into their new house, Fern befriends the strange
boy who lives next door. This boy not only looks like trouble, but he
seems to come from a troubled family as well: his mother has just run
off with husband-number-five, his brother has abandoned him in favor of
a job across the country, leaving some half-sister he’s never met to
take care of him. What a surprise when that half-sister turns out to be
none other than Marcee Robbens!
One Night Stand, is Cindy Kirk’s follow up to When She Was Bad. It picks up where the other left off, briefly revisiting the life of her first heroine, Jenny Carman, then continuing with her best friend Marcee. This is a sweet story about mixed messages and two people at cross purposes being pulled together in spite of themselves. Kirk’s characters and settings have a real air of authenticity to them – she forgoes glamour in favor of small town life and parenthood. She also handles adolescent relationships very well, often showing that teenagers are sometimes more mature than adults! The personalities in the book are so familiar that it’s easy and fun to imagine Kirk’s sizzling suburbia.
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