One Night With a Millionaire by Shannyn Schroeder – a Review
Description:
Over-forty, single mom Tess Howland’s life is all about caring for other people. Indulging in a one night stand is just what she needs. She doesn’t expect to meet anyone she would introduce to her kids, especially not some rich playboy who acts like a big kid himself. Even if he keeps giving her the best sex of her life.
Millionaire Miles Prescott can’t get the sexy nurse he met at a fundraising gala out of his head. For the first time ever, he doesn’t want a woman with no-strings-attached. He wants everything—even it comes with a ready-made family with a woman in her forties. Suddenly, helping with homework doesn’t sound like the worst thing in the world, especially if it means being near Tess.
But what happens when he’s ready to step up and she says no?
Review:
One Night With the Millionaire by Shannyn Schroder is the first book in her new Daring Divorcees series. Tess Howland is our heroine, and we meet her from the start; she is a nurse, as well as a divorcee with three kids. She is attending the Saint Marks Gala, an annual fund raiser for her hospital, and makes her rounds to convince people to donate to Saint Marks.
Miles Prescott, is a millionaire playboy, who attends this gala to please his mother and sister, who run their company, and expect Miles to step up and have a more active role; especially with their father having passed away a year ago. He notices a woman who immediately gets his attention, and makes sure to introduce himself to Tess. Miles knows how to attract woman, and Tess enjoys the attention he gives her. Tess is a workaholic, and has little time for herself caring for her three kids. But she decides since she is free, to have a one night stand with the handsome Miles. One night only. Best laid plans do not always work out.
Miles is not willing to let Tess go, as he enjoys her company, not to mention the sex. He sees in Tess, a woman different then his other woman, and perhaps a future, but can he convince her to allow him to be part of her life? In a short time, their relationship will heat up, and Tess cannot resist the hot sex with Miles. Tess tries to keep their relationship private, but Miles wants more. In time she will relent and have him meet her kids, who end up liking Miles.
What follows is a sweet, fun story with both slowly falling in love, but Miles will begin to become frustrated in his attempt to convince Tess that he wants a more permanent relationship with her and with her children. Tess after her nasty divorce pushed herself to be independent, self sufficient, and refuses to allow Miles, who is rich, to help. Will Miles be able to change Tess’s mind?
One Night with the Millionaire was a fun read, and wonderful characters, including Tess’s friends, children and Miles’s mother and sister. Shannyn Schroeder once again gives us a sweet romance that keeps us unable to put the book down. I look forward to reading more from this new series.
Reviewed by Barb
Copy provided by Publisher
