Title:
Her One-Night Prince
Author:
Rebecca J. Clark
Publisher:
Siren-Bookstrand
Length:
45,000 Words, eBook Format
Sub-Genres:
Comedy, Contemporary
Blurb:
Her
One-Night Prince is a Cinderella story about a woman's dream to be something
she's not for just one night at her class reunion.
As
all fairy tales go, however, happy endings don't come easily.
Shy
and sheltered Lydia St. Clair is uncomfortable around men, so she advertises
for a gay man to be her date and revamp her style. Mitch Gannon answers Lydia's
ad, and he's perfect for the job--he's handsome and, even more important, he's
charming.
Unbeknownst
to Lydia, Mitch is straight and answered the ad as the unwitting victim of a
practical joke. Before he can reveal the truth, Lydia is convinced he's her
fairy godmother, ready to transform her into the belle of the ball. And Mitch,
prince that he is, doesn't have the heart to set her straight.
About
the book:
Lydia
had it bad in high school. She was teased and bullied. She never did,
said, or wore the right thing. As an adult she became somewhat successful but
her high school reunion is coming up and she doesn’t have anyone to take with
her. She didn’t date in high school and rarely dated after high school. In
desperation, she advertises for a date. She believes if she shows up without a date, it won't matter how successful she is, it will prove all her classmates right. She is a loser.
Lydia
has one other issue in her life that makes it difficult, at least in her mind,
to date. Her father was in a terrible accident and now she cares for him.
Confined to a wheel chair, her father needs care twenty-four hours a day. Lydia
won’t even think about placing him in a care facility. She simply doesn't have the time or energy to date.
Mitch
is a rounder who gets set up in what was supposed to be a practical joke. While
he thinks he is doing a favor for a friend, he discovers he is actually being
set up as a gay man answering an ad for a one-night date. Before long, a relationship builds between Lydia and Mitch, making the practical joke not so practical and not much of a joke either.
My
take:
This
is definitely a Romance. The central theme is the development and deepening
attraction of the two main characters. It is light and not a long story, making
it fun to read.
I
wished there had been more depth to the main characters earlier in the story
but by the end of the story, I shed real tears. (I am a romantic at heart,
aren’t I?) Lydia’s father, somewhat a central character in the story, as he
makes things happen, comes through much more complete before either Mitch or
Lydia do.
I
did like the romance in the story. It felt real. Characters found themselves
attracted to one another but not the heart throbbing, dying to be in each other’s
arms sort of thing found in so many romances. This is more like a ‘You’ve Got
Mail’ kind of attraction.
Rebecca
Clark does a good job of writing the playfulness of the relationship as it
develops between Mitch and Lydia. I could see the action rolling out before my
mind’s eye. I could see myself doing those things.
Lydia
moves from being a shy, insecure person to coming into her own as the
successful person she has been all her adult life. Meanwhile Mitch confronts who he really is. I can tell you, having been in Mitch's position, his feelings of not wanting responsibility are not unusual and neither is the change in those feeling around the age of thirty that Mitch experiences.
If
you like light Romances, I believe you will enjoy this book. I read
the one page romance story in one of those weekly women’s magazine sold at the
check out counter (Woman’s World or First or something) and usually enjoy the
brief happiness tale. If you like those types of stories, you will like this.
You can find more about Rebecca J. Clark at her website WWW.REBECCAJCLARK.COM
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