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Fun in the Sun
Knockout
Having the man of your dreams sweep you off your feet--that's what every girl dreams of, right? Except when it happened to Nina, it was because she knocked herself unconscious. By literally running into the man of her dreams. The man she's loved from afar for five years, the man she's finally gotten up the nerve to approach. The man she's going to finally have, or get over once and for all.
She's off to a great start...isn't she?
She's off to a great start...isn't she?
56 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 28, 2006
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About the author
Hannah Murray
54 books122 followersHannah has been reading romance novels since she was young enough to have to hide them from her mother, and decided to try her hand at writing one when she realized the book she really wanted to read lived in her head. That was a dozen years and as many manuscripts ago, and there are still more stories to be told.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband—former Special Forces and an OR nurse who writes fantasy fiction, and acts as In House Expert for his wife on matters pertaining to weapons, tactics, the military, medical conditions and How Dudes Think—and their daughter, who takes after her father.
Hannah loves to hear from readers, and will answer questions here on Goodreads.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband—former Special Forces and an OR nurse who writes fantasy fiction, and acts as In House Expert for his wife on matters pertaining to weapons, tactics, the military, medical conditions and How Dudes Think—and their daughter, who takes after her father.
Hannah loves to hear from readers, and will answer questions here on Goodreads.
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February 7, 2025
Cute! But didn’t do much else for me. Still loved the writing.
May 11, 2025
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Knockout is a stand-alone, contemporary romance novelette written entirely from the heroine’s POV. Nina used to go see Tony’s indie band perform all the time at clubs, essentially becoming one of his biggest groupies. She was totally crazy about the guy and kept trying to work up the courage to talk to him, but insecurities about her weight kept her from ever saying anything more than a weak “thank you” after one of his performances. Not long after that, the musical group disbanded and she hasn’t seen Tony in years. Still, she’s never forgotten him, so when she receives an email announcement out of the blue about Tony performing solo at a bar in New Jersey, she eagerly arranges to go there to see him play. As she’s rushing out of her borrowed cottage in the rain, Nina runs right into a solid wall of muscle. The force makes her lose her balance and fall down, hitting her head and briefly knocking her out. She awakens to the man of her dreams tending her. Once he’s sure she’s okay, they agree to have dinner together, but before the meal is prepared, things turn steamy and they end up in the bedroom with Nina finally living out her long-time fantasy. They spend the next couple of days together and Tony invites her to his gig, wanting her to meet his family. But Nina hasn’t been honest with Tony about them meeting before, and she’s worried that if she tells him the truth, he’ll think she’s just a crazy stalker and won’t want to be with her anymore.
Nina was pretty relatable with her insecurities about her weight. She’s admired Tony from afar for years and thought she’d lost any chance she might have had with him when she couldn’t bring herself to even talk to him. Tony is a sweetheart and a sexy lover. I like that he’d matured out of his playboy phase and was looking for something real. He’s kind and sweet with Nina, finding all of her beautiful, and he’s very good at romancing a girl. These two burn up the sheets pretty quickly after running into one another and can’t get enough of each other. The love scenes are very well-written and there’s enough of a connection between Tony and Nina that I got all the feels. My only small critique is that I thought there could have been a little more variety in sentence structure. Knockout also wasn’t quite long enough to be entirely satisfying, but for a short-format story, it was well-done and enjoyable.
Note: I’ve categorized this novelette as an erotic romance, because the ratio of sex to page count is high, but other than a little explicit language, the content of the love scenes are more on par with steamy mainstream romances.
Knockout is a stand-alone, contemporary romance novelette written entirely from the heroine’s POV. Nina used to go see Tony’s indie band perform all the time at clubs, essentially becoming one of his biggest groupies. She was totally crazy about the guy and kept trying to work up the courage to talk to him, but insecurities about her weight kept her from ever saying anything more than a weak “thank you” after one of his performances. Not long after that, the musical group disbanded and she hasn’t seen Tony in years. Still, she’s never forgotten him, so when she receives an email announcement out of the blue about Tony performing solo at a bar in New Jersey, she eagerly arranges to go there to see him play. As she’s rushing out of her borrowed cottage in the rain, Nina runs right into a solid wall of muscle. The force makes her lose her balance and fall down, hitting her head and briefly knocking her out. She awakens to the man of her dreams tending her. Once he’s sure she’s okay, they agree to have dinner together, but before the meal is prepared, things turn steamy and they end up in the bedroom with Nina finally living out her long-time fantasy. They spend the next couple of days together and Tony invites her to his gig, wanting her to meet his family. But Nina hasn’t been honest with Tony about them meeting before, and she’s worried that if she tells him the truth, he’ll think she’s just a crazy stalker and won’t want to be with her anymore.
Nina was pretty relatable with her insecurities about her weight. She’s admired Tony from afar for years and thought she’d lost any chance she might have had with him when she couldn’t bring herself to even talk to him. Tony is a sweetheart and a sexy lover. I like that he’d matured out of his playboy phase and was looking for something real. He’s kind and sweet with Nina, finding all of her beautiful, and he’s very good at romancing a girl. These two burn up the sheets pretty quickly after running into one another and can’t get enough of each other. The love scenes are very well-written and there’s enough of a connection between Tony and Nina that I got all the feels. My only small critique is that I thought there could have been a little more variety in sentence structure. Knockout also wasn’t quite long enough to be entirely satisfying, but for a short-format story, it was well-done and enjoyable.
Note: I’ve categorized this novelette as an erotic romance, because the ratio of sex to page count is high, but other than a little explicit language, the content of the love scenes are more on par with steamy mainstream romances.
July 26, 2022
wonderful
Really enjoyed this book. While a short read the author expressed so much in such a little amount of time and had she been honest (the character) in the beginning she’s spared herself a lot of worry.
Really enjoyed this book. While a short read the author expressed so much in such a little amount of time and had she been honest (the character) in the beginning she’s spared herself a lot of worry.
December 28, 2021
This is a really short and easy to read novella. I read it in less than half an hour, and I found the writing really engaging and easy to follow. The story is quite sweet and the two characters had really good chemistry together. There wasn’t really time in the story for their personalities to develop fully, but they were interesting enough. The plot was quite amusing and came to a satisfying conclusion. I would have liked it to be just a bit longer to let some of the story details expand a bit more, though.
I would recommend it if you want a quick, sexy read with a bit of yearning and instalove.
I would recommend it if you want a quick, sexy read with a bit of yearning and instalove.
February 8, 2013
Hot quick read. Good storyline
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