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One-Night Stand
Reed didn't love her, He wanted to make love to her but with no promise of commitment. And he was painfully honest about his feelings.
Jodie wasn't the sort of woman who had casual affairs. She wanted a warm, caring relationship with a man she could learn to love. So why did she feel so tempted to go along with Reed's demands? It must mean that he was someonewho mattered in her life ... But could she face the pain of loving a man who had no intention of loving her back?
Jodie wasn't the sort of woman who had casual affairs. She wanted a warm, caring relationship with a man she could learn to love. So why did she feel so tempted to go along with Reed's demands? It must mean that he was someonewho mattered in her life ... But could she face the pain of loving a man who had no intention of loving her back?
- GenresHqnHarlequin Presents
189 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 1993
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About the author
Sandra Field
214 books35 followersJill MacLean was born on 1941 in England, UK. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory.
When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace.
However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time.
Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time.
She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books.
Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
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February 23, 2018
Re One Night Stand - Sandra Field tackles the difficult subject of recovering after childhood sexual abuse in this one.
This is the hidden secret that isn't revealed until much later in the story, but given the subject, it is probably best to let curious minds know what they are getting into.
This one starts with the 34 yr old lone wolf black belt karate and property tycoon H going to a dance recital with his BFF's - an elderly couple who see the H as their adopted son, even tho they did not meet until he was in his twenties. The H is originally from NYC. When he lived there, he met the couple and they asked him to visit them in Halifax, Nova Scotia and he did and liked it, so he never left.
This H is very much a loner, he actively avoids relationships and has never been married, engaged or even had a girlfriend. He does one night of lurve and done and never looks back. But when his BFF's drag him to a modern dance recital, he gets really interested in the lovely company director - who does a few fabulous dances of trees and womanly transformations.
He has a bad case of instant attraction, but he resists the impulse to meet the h. Until she shows up at his newly purchased apartment building. She has been on the wait list for a particular apartment because it has a garden attached and it is very affordable. The H tells her that yes the apartment is being vacated, but no she can't have it, cause he is moving into it.
Then he asks the h to dinner and she agrees to go. We find out the h is a 30 yr old widow, who switched to modern dance when she grew too tall to be a ballerina. The h was 18 when she married her childhood love and then he died five years later and she spent a lot of time seriously grieving until she was able to do a little world tour and recover herself.
Her attraction to the H is as intense as his is for her. But both of these people are brutally brunt and over very sparky dinner conversation, the H asks her if she will have a one nighter with him and she declines. She isn't a hit it and quit it kind of person and she has only ever been with her husband.
The attraction is strong tho, so they start dating and they go to a lot of movies and the h helps the H tame his new garden, all while striking sparks off each other. Both of them also get involved with some of the disadvantaged youth in the area, the h by offering free dance lessons and the H, who also owns a dojo, by offering free karate lessons. There is a small subplot where the H and h help out a pair of teens who are having issues with neighborhood bullies and there is some drama that gets nicely resolved.
The h is rapidly falling in love with the H and he is emotionally all over the place. This H has HUGE trust issues - as in he trusts no one and it isn't cause his sister got abducted by aliens. After some back and forth and H inner torment, he breaks things off with the h. Only to be unable to stay away and the h is really in love with him, so his big secret finally comes out because he is trying really hard to stay connected to the h.
The H's dad was a stevedore who worked at the Port of New York. His mother took off when the H was two, but his dad loved him and did his best to raise him alone until he died when the H was 15. One time when the H was 7, his dad had to go out of town on a trip for something and he got one of his friends, who was also his boss, to stay with his son.
The boss, whom the H thought of as an honorary uncle, abused the H the first night his dad left and then told the H if he told, his dad would get fired. The H ran away and hid on the streets for the next few nights until his dad returned, but the H is now unable to trust or get emotionally close to anyone and he is deeply ashamed. The H managed to avoid being alone with the pedophile ever again and he died a few years later, but the H has never told anyone what happened to him.
When he finally tells the h about what happened, she is very upset for him. But she is also encouraging that he try a relationship with her. The H tries really hard not to withdraw from the h, but it gets pretty dicey when he ends up beating a punching bag until his hands are bloody and he accidentally hits the h when she wakes him up while he was sleeping.
The h does her best to be supportive and reiterates over and over that nothing was his fault. But it isn't until the nephews of an H business rival kidnap the h on her way to meet the H, they were trying to force the H to abandon a business deal, that he manages to overcome his trust issue.
The H initially thinks the h just abandoned him, but as the hours set in and the H starts to think rationally instead of emotionally, he realizes the h is stuck to him like glue and would never leave him of her own accord. So he starts looking for the h and no one she knows has seen her, but the business rival mentions his nephews and some boasting they did and the H goes ballistic and goes to hunt the nephews down.
The h, meanwhile, has been dragged to a cabin in the woods and manages to escape. Then she gets a little lost trying to get away, but she remembers what the H taught her about forest navigation and she makes it to the road just as the H starts searching for her - after he beat the really stupid nephews up.
The H and h have a big, happy reunion and the H proclaims his love and explains how he trusts her. They both decide to keep trusting and loving each other and be each other's support every single day and we leave them lurving it up for the big HEA.
This book is well written, but it is incredibly sad. Also, because this subject was NEVER discussed at the time it was written, modern readers are going to be appalled that no one mentions getting the H some help or counseling.
In light of what we know now, compared to what we knew then -this book is going to read as dated or really callous. But please remember that at the time, there just wasn't much help for this type of abuse, because few people even wanted to admit that it happened.
This is not a happy or fun HPLandia outing. It also isn't angsty in the classic sense of emo-wreckiness with mopey moments. It is a serious look and a serious attempt to make people aware of the kind of abuse that should be exposed and denounced everywhere.
It is sensitively written with the best knowledge available at the time and there is an eventual believable work in progress HEA. But it is also terribly sad and heartbreaking that such things happen in the world. So this one may or may not be a reader's HP cuppa for an HPlandia outing.
This is the hidden secret that isn't revealed until much later in the story, but given the subject, it is probably best to let curious minds know what they are getting into.
This one starts with the 34 yr old lone wolf black belt karate and property tycoon H going to a dance recital with his BFF's - an elderly couple who see the H as their adopted son, even tho they did not meet until he was in his twenties. The H is originally from NYC. When he lived there, he met the couple and they asked him to visit them in Halifax, Nova Scotia and he did and liked it, so he never left.
This H is very much a loner, he actively avoids relationships and has never been married, engaged or even had a girlfriend. He does one night of lurve and done and never looks back. But when his BFF's drag him to a modern dance recital, he gets really interested in the lovely company director - who does a few fabulous dances of trees and womanly transformations.
He has a bad case of instant attraction, but he resists the impulse to meet the h. Until she shows up at his newly purchased apartment building. She has been on the wait list for a particular apartment because it has a garden attached and it is very affordable. The H tells her that yes the apartment is being vacated, but no she can't have it, cause he is moving into it.
Then he asks the h to dinner and she agrees to go. We find out the h is a 30 yr old widow, who switched to modern dance when she grew too tall to be a ballerina. The h was 18 when she married her childhood love and then he died five years later and she spent a lot of time seriously grieving until she was able to do a little world tour and recover herself.
Her attraction to the H is as intense as his is for her. But both of these people are brutally brunt and over very sparky dinner conversation, the H asks her if she will have a one nighter with him and she declines. She isn't a hit it and quit it kind of person and she has only ever been with her husband.
The attraction is strong tho, so they start dating and they go to a lot of movies and the h helps the H tame his new garden, all while striking sparks off each other. Both of them also get involved with some of the disadvantaged youth in the area, the h by offering free dance lessons and the H, who also owns a dojo, by offering free karate lessons. There is a small subplot where the H and h help out a pair of teens who are having issues with neighborhood bullies and there is some drama that gets nicely resolved.
The h is rapidly falling in love with the H and he is emotionally all over the place. This H has HUGE trust issues - as in he trusts no one and it isn't cause his sister got abducted by aliens. After some back and forth and H inner torment, he breaks things off with the h. Only to be unable to stay away and the h is really in love with him, so his big secret finally comes out because he is trying really hard to stay connected to the h.
The H's dad was a stevedore who worked at the Port of New York. His mother took off when the H was two, but his dad loved him and did his best to raise him alone until he died when the H was 15. One time when the H was 7, his dad had to go out of town on a trip for something and he got one of his friends, who was also his boss, to stay with his son.
The boss, whom the H thought of as an honorary uncle, abused the H the first night his dad left and then told the H if he told, his dad would get fired. The H ran away and hid on the streets for the next few nights until his dad returned, but the H is now unable to trust or get emotionally close to anyone and he is deeply ashamed. The H managed to avoid being alone with the pedophile ever again and he died a few years later, but the H has never told anyone what happened to him.
When he finally tells the h about what happened, she is very upset for him. But she is also encouraging that he try a relationship with her. The H tries really hard not to withdraw from the h, but it gets pretty dicey when he ends up beating a punching bag until his hands are bloody and he accidentally hits the h when she wakes him up while he was sleeping.
The h does her best to be supportive and reiterates over and over that nothing was his fault. But it isn't until the nephews of an H business rival kidnap the h on her way to meet the H, they were trying to force the H to abandon a business deal, that he manages to overcome his trust issue.
The H initially thinks the h just abandoned him, but as the hours set in and the H starts to think rationally instead of emotionally, he realizes the h is stuck to him like glue and would never leave him of her own accord. So he starts looking for the h and no one she knows has seen her, but the business rival mentions his nephews and some boasting they did and the H goes ballistic and goes to hunt the nephews down.
The h, meanwhile, has been dragged to a cabin in the woods and manages to escape. Then she gets a little lost trying to get away, but she remembers what the H taught her about forest navigation and she makes it to the road just as the H starts searching for her - after he beat the really stupid nephews up.
The H and h have a big, happy reunion and the H proclaims his love and explains how he trusts her. They both decide to keep trusting and loving each other and be each other's support every single day and we leave them lurving it up for the big HEA.
This book is well written, but it is incredibly sad. Also, because this subject was NEVER discussed at the time it was written, modern readers are going to be appalled that no one mentions getting the H some help or counseling.
In light of what we know now, compared to what we knew then -this book is going to read as dated or really callous. But please remember that at the time, there just wasn't much help for this type of abuse, because few people even wanted to admit that it happened.
This is not a happy or fun HPLandia outing. It also isn't angsty in the classic sense of emo-wreckiness with mopey moments. It is a serious look and a serious attempt to make people aware of the kind of abuse that should be exposed and denounced everywhere.
It is sensitively written with the best knowledge available at the time and there is an eventual believable work in progress HEA. But it is also terribly sad and heartbreaking that such things happen in the world. So this one may or may not be a reader's HP cuppa for an HPlandia outing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 26, 2023
3.5
This has a black belt karate teacher H, Reed, an emotionally unavailable one night stander struggling to love and trust young widowed dance teacher Jodie. He has a harrowing backstory and it feels all too real, rather than your hammy gothic HP usual, so fair play to this author for going there. And while I do believe love can conquer all, it's fair to say that some trauma needs a little professional psychological support too, so this is slightly simplistic. There's a bungled kidnapping at the end which didn't really work for me, although I saw the necessity of the plot device. Nevertheless this was pretty absorbing and I did root for them to have a happy future.
This has a black belt karate teacher H, Reed, an emotionally unavailable one night stander struggling to love and trust young widowed dance teacher Jodie. He has a harrowing backstory and it feels all too real, rather than your hammy gothic HP usual, so fair play to this author for going there. And while I do believe love can conquer all, it's fair to say that some trauma needs a little professional psychological support too, so this is slightly simplistic. There's a bungled kidnapping at the end which didn't really work for me, although I saw the necessity of the plot device. Nevertheless this was pretty absorbing and I did root for them to have a happy future.
December 16, 2011
The hero Reed is enthralled by the heroine Jodie after seeing her dance at a recital. Even though he knows he can't give her commitment, Reed can't get her out of his mind, so after they meet coincidentally he asks her out. Jodie is also drawn to Reed, and this shocks her as he is the first man to attract her since her beloved husband died. When Reed admits to Jodie that all he wants is to sleep with her, she knows she can't do it, she wants and believes in love. Reed inexplicably knows he needs Jodie and continues to see her, hoping that eventually she will give in to the desire between them, and she does. However, instead of his need for her lessening, it only increases along with their feelings for one another. But Reed is scared of fully opening the darkness in his heart to her, fearing she will leave him. But his lack of trust only ends up hurting Jodie.
This is a bit hit and miss. The start of the book is really good, then it gets a little boring and I found my attention drifting. However, when the hero revealed his secrets it was quite shocking and really added another layer to the story. I ended up really enjoying it, it deals with some tough stuff and, for an older book, is both forward and shocking. Although the suspense style ending is rather bizarre and quite ridiculous!
The hero and heroine work well together and there is some great sexual tension along with the heavy conflict, which makes it very entertaining.
An enjoyable read.
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
This is a bit hit and miss. The start of the book is really good, then it gets a little boring and I found my attention drifting. However, when the hero revealed his secrets it was quite shocking and really added another layer to the story. I ended up really enjoying it, it deals with some tough stuff and, for an older book, is both forward and shocking. Although the suspense style ending is rather bizarre and quite ridiculous!
The hero and heroine work well together and there is some great sexual tension along with the heavy conflict, which makes it very entertaining.
An enjoyable read.
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
March 26, 2026
This was a hot mess. On one hand, the author is trying to write a sensitive, harrowing account of child abuse and its long term effects. Her hero is a man haunted by what happened to him when he was six years old at the hands of a trusted family friend. He is closed off emotionally for all of his 34 years until he meets the heroine, a young widow who is not going to let him get away with his "one-night stand" rule any longer.
Then, on the other hand, we have an absolutely ridiculous, eleventh hour caper where two goons kidnap the heroine in order to prevent the hero from closing a real estate transaction for some property coveted by their uncle. It was absolutely redonkulous, inorganic, and did not belong in this book. Maybe an editor forced her hand to spice things up a bit but it just was horrendous.
Up to that ridiculous ending, I had somewhat enjoyed the book although more for its unintentionally comical moments such as: the heroine's incredible fashion sense (she favors tangerine lipstick and orange and green harem pants); the bizarre scene of heroine abruptly breaking into an impromptu dance performance in the middle of the night, on a quiet Halifax street, as her response to the hero trying to break things off with her; the fact that the hero, a karate instructor/real estate tycoon, is so turned on by the heroine he breaks into karate moves in order to relieve the tension built up in his body. loltastic.
Then, on the other hand, we have an absolutely ridiculous, eleventh hour caper where two goons kidnap the heroine in order to prevent the hero from closing a real estate transaction for some property coveted by their uncle. It was absolutely redonkulous, inorganic, and did not belong in this book. Maybe an editor forced her hand to spice things up a bit but it just was horrendous.
Up to that ridiculous ending, I had somewhat enjoyed the book although more for its unintentionally comical moments such as: the heroine's incredible fashion sense (she favors tangerine lipstick and orange and green harem pants); the bizarre scene of heroine abruptly breaking into an impromptu dance performance in the middle of the night, on a quiet Halifax street, as her response to the hero trying to break things off with her; the fact that the hero, a karate instructor/real estate tycoon, is so turned on by the heroine he breaks into karate moves in order to relieve the tension built up in his body. loltastic.
June 21, 2024
Heavy ass themes and a hero whose so mentally fakkucked he can't even commit to a house plant. I *get* why he is the way he is (when we're finally let in on why) but it's so DEPRESSING as the poor heroine spends the entire book being ghosted, sent away, told she's for sex only, snapped at, glared at, rudely spoken to and ignored. She's the one who has to make every gesture, to reach out, and to have the hand slapped away again and again and again.
It's also poorly paced, I kept thinking 'surely it needs to wrap up now' as the plot goes on and on in a truncated, drawn out way. When we get a kidnapping seven pages from the end I was like WHUT?
A melancholy read, and too heavy a subject matter for a Mill & Boon romance.
It's also poorly paced, I kept thinking 'surely it needs to wrap up now' as the plot goes on and on in a truncated, drawn out way. When we get a kidnapping seven pages from the end I was like WHUT?
A melancholy read, and too heavy a subject matter for a Mill & Boon romance.
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