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September 20, 2017
Re Night of Error - Kay Thorpe does the drunken one night stand seekrit baby trope with this one. The h and H met up at a party about five years before the book starts. The h was a bit tipsy from the callous treatment of a guy she really liked who was only using her to make another girl jealous and when she met the H and he was hot, she went off with him instead.
Only first names were exchanged and once the h sobered up, she felt pretty bad and left in a taxi. Then she turned up preggers and her mother disowned her, so the h took herself off to a commune and had her son. Five years on, she saw the H in a magazine article about the the big estate he just finished restoring and where he lives, so she went to go ask the H if he would help pay for her son's schooling and expenses.
The H takes one look at the h and his son and decides he is keeping them. The H's mum isn't terribly thrilled, but the H's Great Dane Sam is delighted and the little boy now has a best friend, plus there is lots of animals and a fawn to pet on the H's estate. The H determines that he and the h will marry and it will be an MOC but with benefits.
KT does her usual pragmatism and the h agrees to sleep with the H, tho she has to drink a lot the first time, things are working out great in that area. She and the H don't really communicate all that well in other areas tho and there is the female business partner of the H's sister for an OW as well. The h automatically figures the H will cheat, she just doesn't want to know about it and she is feeling the green eyed angsty monster claws when she thinks of the H with the OW.
The h tries to fit into the H's lifestyle, but she is still closer to unicorn grooming than femme fatale so she isn't exactly enthusiastic when the H wants to get his groove on in the outdoor pool. The H is fairly enigmatic and dictatorial, as KT H's are wont to do, and the h is trying to be a decent spouse to him, but they have very different backgrounds. There is conflict when the H orders her not do things like talk to the estate manager and the h isn't one to take any type of H dictates calmly.
She is also bored and needing things to occupy her time but there just isn't that much for her to do. She can't get a job because she is the wife of wealthy man and the area is economically depressed, she doesn't do charity things and she has no friends in the area either. The H's sister is nice, but she has her shop, so the h is at a bit of a loose end while trying to find her place.
The H essentially treats her as if she is a concubine to serve his whims and he gets really cranky when she isn't leaping to do his lurve club bidding - he actually tells her that is her payment for the clothes and the convertible he bought her. They have forced seduction moments where the h gives the H black eye and the h is more convinced than ever that he is still seeing the OW, she decides to follow him on a possible afternoon tryst. She winds up following the OW instead and then loses her but figures she and the H are lurving it up in an out of the way pub.
The H and h fight about it later, cause the H sees her with the former estate manager who gave her a lift cause she ran out of gas and she counters with accusations about the H meeting up with the OW. There is more passion moments and the h makes a plan to become an insatiable lurve club holder to distract the H from OW and get preggers to keep the H tied up longer cause she now loves him. The H also suggests that the h does some of the tours around the H's house when it is open to the public and gets the h riding lessons.
The H decides to appoint a manager for the family business empire and take over running the family estate himself. It seems the former estate manager was embezzling and the man locks the h and her son in a fractious stallion's stall in retaliation for being dismissed. The son saves them both by calming the horse down and the H comes to find them and gets really pale when he thinks the h might have been killed.
After the near death experience, the H admits that he loves the h and she declares she loves him back. The OW has decided to sell out her partnership with the H's sister and leave the area. The H claims there wasn't much between them anyways and he was meeting his solicitor at the pub when the h was trying to follow him. The H and h are happy now and the H's mother is more accepting of the h, so she finally found how she fits in and we leave the H and h lurving it up for the HEA.
This is an average HP outing. Not a ton of excitement in the telling, but a decent story and a fast read with a mostly believable HEA, so it is an okay time filler if you run into it but nothing out of the ordinary HPlandia run.
Only first names were exchanged and once the h sobered up, she felt pretty bad and left in a taxi. Then she turned up preggers and her mother disowned her, so the h took herself off to a commune and had her son. Five years on, she saw the H in a magazine article about the the big estate he just finished restoring and where he lives, so she went to go ask the H if he would help pay for her son's schooling and expenses.
The H takes one look at the h and his son and decides he is keeping them. The H's mum isn't terribly thrilled, but the H's Great Dane Sam is delighted and the little boy now has a best friend, plus there is lots of animals and a fawn to pet on the H's estate. The H determines that he and the h will marry and it will be an MOC but with benefits.
KT does her usual pragmatism and the h agrees to sleep with the H, tho she has to drink a lot the first time, things are working out great in that area. She and the H don't really communicate all that well in other areas tho and there is the female business partner of the H's sister for an OW as well. The h automatically figures the H will cheat, she just doesn't want to know about it and she is feeling the green eyed angsty monster claws when she thinks of the H with the OW.
The h tries to fit into the H's lifestyle, but she is still closer to unicorn grooming than femme fatale so she isn't exactly enthusiastic when the H wants to get his groove on in the outdoor pool. The H is fairly enigmatic and dictatorial, as KT H's are wont to do, and the h is trying to be a decent spouse to him, but they have very different backgrounds. There is conflict when the H orders her not do things like talk to the estate manager and the h isn't one to take any type of H dictates calmly.
She is also bored and needing things to occupy her time but there just isn't that much for her to do. She can't get a job because she is the wife of wealthy man and the area is economically depressed, she doesn't do charity things and she has no friends in the area either. The H's sister is nice, but she has her shop, so the h is at a bit of a loose end while trying to find her place.
The H essentially treats her as if she is a concubine to serve his whims and he gets really cranky when she isn't leaping to do his lurve club bidding - he actually tells her that is her payment for the clothes and the convertible he bought her. They have forced seduction moments where the h gives the H black eye and the h is more convinced than ever that he is still seeing the OW, she decides to follow him on a possible afternoon tryst. She winds up following the OW instead and then loses her but figures she and the H are lurving it up in an out of the way pub.
The H and h fight about it later, cause the H sees her with the former estate manager who gave her a lift cause she ran out of gas and she counters with accusations about the H meeting up with the OW. There is more passion moments and the h makes a plan to become an insatiable lurve club holder to distract the H from OW and get preggers to keep the H tied up longer cause she now loves him. The H also suggests that the h does some of the tours around the H's house when it is open to the public and gets the h riding lessons.
The H decides to appoint a manager for the family business empire and take over running the family estate himself. It seems the former estate manager was embezzling and the man locks the h and her son in a fractious stallion's stall in retaliation for being dismissed. The son saves them both by calming the horse down and the H comes to find them and gets really pale when he thinks the h might have been killed.
After the near death experience, the H admits that he loves the h and she declares she loves him back. The OW has decided to sell out her partnership with the H's sister and leave the area. The H claims there wasn't much between them anyways and he was meeting his solicitor at the pub when the h was trying to follow him. The H and h are happy now and the H's mother is more accepting of the h, so she finally found how she fits in and we leave the H and h lurving it up for the HEA.
This is an average HP outing. Not a ton of excitement in the telling, but a decent story and a fast read with a mostly believable HEA, so it is an okay time filler if you run into it but nothing out of the ordinary HPlandia run.
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December 19, 2025
Six years prior to the beginning of this story, hero and heroine, two complete strangers, have a one night stand. In the morning, they part ways, never expecting to speak or see each other again. The heroine ends up pregnant, gives birth to her Seekret Baybee, and raises the little boy as best she can.
The plot moppet is now five years old and ready for school. The heroine finds out the hero’s name and whereabouts in a random press article. Since he is rich rich, she contacts him to let him know about his son and to ask him to pay the tuition for a good private school.
The hero counters with a MOC proposal, which the heroine doesn't linger too long over. The sparks between them in bed are scorching hot even if their rapport in daylight is distant and riddled with misunderstandings.
The heroine does stand up for herself and for her son before the posh, wealthy hero, her weary mother in law, and her judgey sister in law, who suspect that she is a vulgar gold digging hall of famer.
There is a frosty OW that heroine obsesses over, suspecting her husband of cheating on her. But, unlike most of KT’s heroes, the hero of this story is NOT a big fat adulterer. Nevertheless, heroine gives him a black eye in a fit of jealousy!
A brush with life and death brings on the ILY declaration from hero but I have the feeling that if heroine and plot moppet hadn't barged into his ordered, privileged life, he would have been quite content to live the rest of his life without them. I mean, he didn't even recognize her when she pushed herself into his office years after their ONS!
The plot moppet is now five years old and ready for school. The heroine finds out the hero’s name and whereabouts in a random press article. Since he is rich rich, she contacts him to let him know about his son and to ask him to pay the tuition for a good private school.
The hero counters with a MOC proposal, which the heroine doesn't linger too long over. The sparks between them in bed are scorching hot even if their rapport in daylight is distant and riddled with misunderstandings.
The heroine does stand up for herself and for her son before the posh, wealthy hero, her weary mother in law, and her judgey sister in law, who suspect that she is a vulgar gold digging hall of famer.
There is a frosty OW that heroine obsesses over, suspecting her husband of cheating on her. But, unlike most of KT’s heroes, the hero of this story is NOT a big fat adulterer. Nevertheless, heroine gives him a black eye in a fit of jealousy!
A brush with life and death brings on the ILY declaration from hero but I have the feeling that if heroine and plot moppet hadn't barged into his ordered, privileged life, he would have been quite content to live the rest of his life without them. I mean, he didn't even recognize her when she pushed herself into his office years after their ONS!
June 10, 2015
One of the most hateful, immature heroines I have ever read.
March 6, 2022
A husband was the last thing she wanted.
In fact, marriage wasn't even on Lian Downing's agenda. She'd come to ask for financial assistance--she needed the money to help raise her son.
Bryn Thornley, however, was insisting on claiming his rights to their child. He left her no choice but to fall in with his plans--and marriage was what he was offering.
For Jonathan's sake Lian finally agreed; and she knew there'd be no going back. But adjusting to the disturbing stranger who was now her husband was more heart-wrenching than she'd ever imagined.
In fact, marriage wasn't even on Lian Downing's agenda. She'd come to ask for financial assistance--she needed the money to help raise her son.
Bryn Thornley, however, was insisting on claiming his rights to their child. He left her no choice but to fall in with his plans--and marriage was what he was offering.
For Jonathan's sake Lian finally agreed; and she knew there'd be no going back. But adjusting to the disturbing stranger who was now her husband was more heart-wrenching than she'd ever imagined.
March 26, 2012
Heroine had a one-night stand 4.5 years ago, and finally finds out who the father is (hero, of course), and comes to see him because her son deserves a better life. Hero demands marriage, and off they go. This was a decent read, though the conclusion was pretty abrupt. It also lacked a little oomph along the way or something -- I just wasn't that deeply drawn into the story. Still, not bad for the age of it.
July 4, 2017
I wanted to like this book. However, the heroine was a complete ninny. She vacillated between "love" and ridiculous levels of unfounded jealousy of "OW". Our hero was about the only redeeming quality in this book; he didn't shirk his responsibilities and tried his best to make the relationship work. However, our heroine kept telling herself that she loved H, but she kept pushing him away every chance he got using poorly written (author's fault) understanding of independence and feminism, plus blind jealousy as the rational. Really, the h's logic was a hot mess thanks to poor writing!
I have to admit, I love the blind jealousy trope, A LOT, but this was just so poorly written, and maybe struck a few feminist cords in myself. The author obviously has no understanding of feminist theory and just threw it in there during a time when feminism was socially frowned upon. Sorry about the rant, but study your theory before you to write about it with distain!
I have to admit, I love the blind jealousy trope, A LOT, but this was just so poorly written, and maybe struck a few feminist cords in myself. The author obviously has no understanding of feminist theory and just threw it in there during a time when feminism was socially frowned upon. Sorry about the rant, but study your theory before you to write about it with distain!
August 6, 2023
"Night of Error" is the story of Lian and Bryn.
The hero/heroine have a one night stand, where they do not exchange names. Years later, she turns up at his door with his son and demands tuition pay. He instead blackmails her into marriage and that forms the story.
Zero chemistry but lots of unnecessary jealousy, along with some dub/con mixed in. I didnt like it.
SWE?
1.5/5
The hero/heroine have a one night stand, where they do not exchange names. Years later, she turns up at his door with his son and demands tuition pay. He instead blackmails her into marriage and that forms the story.
Zero chemistry but lots of unnecessary jealousy, along with some dub/con mixed in. I didnt like it.
SWE?
1.5/5
April 22, 2021
Nice story but not compelling. The copy on Archive.org is missing the last few pages so I missed the happy ending.
December 30, 2024
I'm angry at this author! She took what could have been a good story and seemed to deliberately ruin it by having the h be so unappealing that if right in the middle of the story she suddenly keeled over and croaked, you wouldn't give a damn. In fact, you'd be glad, so the H could find someone else, since their son deserved a mother without such a giant chip on her shoulder!
True, she had reason to bear a grudge against her mother, but she seemed to want to hold onto it, rather than make an effort to get past it, for her son's sake. And it gave her a bad attitude toward everyone, coming across as one of those "my way or the highway" people that I can't stand!
She literally barged into the H's life, demanding he provide financial support for a son he knew nothing about, and after blindsiding him like that, expects he'll just pay up and stay away! WTF!!!! She was just being spiteful because he didn't recognize her right away from their one-night stand five years before that put the bun in her oven, when in actuality, since she was drunk as a skunk at the time, it should have been she who forgot him! And she only slept with him to spite the guy she thought she was in love with, because he only took her to a party (where she met the H) to make his ex-girlfriend jealous, and when it worked, he forgot she existed!
Her mother, the H, the OM, all content to forget her, that tells you something right there!
She was doing okay on her own raising her son, until she saw a magazine picture of the H, recognized him and discovered he was wealthy, and decided to pay him a visit, so he'd pay to send the kid to private school!! Not because she wants her son to know his father, but so she can get money out of him!!!
This h is the poster girl for all the crappy things men have been saying about women!
I just skimmed through the book after a while, because when she acts all angry and jealous when the H grows close to their son, because she wanted to be the center of the boy's life, that did it for me! She even resents the H's mother, as if to say, "If my mother's not a part of our son's life, why should yours be?" Unbelievable!
There's the usual marry for the kid's sake, hot sex (but nothing else) connecting them, jealousy of the OW, arguments and misunderstandings, but it all falls flat, because the h is so unlikeable, you don't want a HEA! for me, it was a DNF!
True, she had reason to bear a grudge against her mother, but she seemed to want to hold onto it, rather than make an effort to get past it, for her son's sake. And it gave her a bad attitude toward everyone, coming across as one of those "my way or the highway" people that I can't stand!
She literally barged into the H's life, demanding he provide financial support for a son he knew nothing about, and after blindsiding him like that, expects he'll just pay up and stay away! WTF!!!! She was just being spiteful because he didn't recognize her right away from their one-night stand five years before that put the bun in her oven, when in actuality, since she was drunk as a skunk at the time, it should have been she who forgot him! And she only slept with him to spite the guy she thought she was in love with, because he only took her to a party (where she met the H) to make his ex-girlfriend jealous, and when it worked, he forgot she existed!
Her mother, the H, the OM, all content to forget her, that tells you something right there!
She was doing okay on her own raising her son, until she saw a magazine picture of the H, recognized him and discovered he was wealthy, and decided to pay him a visit, so he'd pay to send the kid to private school!! Not because she wants her son to know his father, but so she can get money out of him!!!
This h is the poster girl for all the crappy things men have been saying about women!
I just skimmed through the book after a while, because when she acts all angry and jealous when the H grows close to their son, because she wanted to be the center of the boy's life, that did it for me! She even resents the H's mother, as if to say, "If my mother's not a part of our son's life, why should yours be?" Unbelievable!
There's the usual marry for the kid's sake, hot sex (but nothing else) connecting them, jealousy of the OW, arguments and misunderstandings, but it all falls flat, because the h is so unlikeable, you don't want a HEA! for me, it was a DNF!
August 9, 2012
Day of error to waste time reading this.
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