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One More Night
Disturbed, angry, and at odds
That just about summed up her reaction to Rick Emerson, Evonne thought bitterly. Ever since she'd first laid eyes on him.
When she agreed to do her employer a favor, she'd expected to be helping a young, untried writer to organize and type his book. This sophisticated, attractive, dangerous specimen was not part of her calculations.
Rick was just about the most aggravating man she'd ever met - and he had absolutely no right to pry into her past !
That just about summed up her reaction to Rick Emerson, Evonne thought bitterly. Ever since she'd first laid eyes on him.
When she agreed to do her employer a favor, she'd expected to be helping a young, untried writer to organize and type his book. This sophisticated, attractive, dangerous specimen was not part of her calculations.
Rick was just about the most aggravating man she'd ever met - and he had absolutely no right to pry into her past !
186 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1989
About the author
Lindsay Armstrong
320 books92 followersGillian Smith (alias Lindsay Armstrong) was born in South Africa. She grew up with three ambitions: to become a writer, to travel the world, and to be a game ranger. She didn't achieve the last one, but her fascination for wildlife and that special something about Africa and its big game still remains with her. When she went to work it was in travel, at an agency and an airline, and this started her on the road to seeing the world.
Lindsey met her New Zealand-born husband, who had been working in West Africa, when he was on his way home through Johannesburg. He did go home but in a matter of weeks he was back in South Africa, and six months later they were married. Three of their five children were born in South Africa. Then one in London and one in Australia, after they made the decision to emigrate from South Africa.
It wasn't until her youngest child started school that Lindsay sat down at the kitchen table determined to tackle her other ambition to stop dreaming about writing and do it! She hasn't stopped since. She's not happy unless she has a book under way, and she's discovered she can write through just about anything.
Lindsay and her husband have moved around a lot. They've trained racehorses,farmed, and lived on their boat for six months while they sailed it from the Gold Coast to the Torres Strait and back, an epic voyage! They currently live in Queensland, overlooking the water; they sold their farm, and they're looking around for another boat. She and her husband love to travel and have been back to Africa twice in the past few years. The highlight of one of their trips was a visit to the Serengeti, in Tanzania, where Lindsay did the one thing she swore she would never do: take a ride in a hot-air balloon. She was a nervous wreck as the balloon tottered upright, but will remember it as a unique experience to see the game spreading out on the Serengeti plain beneath her as the sun rose.
"They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there..."
Despite this passion for wildlife and Africa, Lindsay considers Australia her home now and loves the country. She travelled to Sydney to witness the closing weekend of the Olympic Games in September 2000; it made her proud to be an adopted Aussie!
Lindsey met her New Zealand-born husband, who had been working in West Africa, when he was on his way home through Johannesburg. He did go home but in a matter of weeks he was back in South Africa, and six months later they were married. Three of their five children were born in South Africa. Then one in London and one in Australia, after they made the decision to emigrate from South Africa.
It wasn't until her youngest child started school that Lindsay sat down at the kitchen table determined to tackle her other ambition to stop dreaming about writing and do it! She hasn't stopped since. She's not happy unless she has a book under way, and she's discovered she can write through just about anything.
Lindsay and her husband have moved around a lot. They've trained racehorses,farmed, and lived on their boat for six months while they sailed it from the Gold Coast to the Torres Strait and back, an epic voyage! They currently live in Queensland, overlooking the water; they sold their farm, and they're looking around for another boat. She and her husband love to travel and have been back to Africa twice in the past few years. The highlight of one of their trips was a visit to the Serengeti, in Tanzania, where Lindsay did the one thing she swore she would never do: take a ride in a hot-air balloon. She was a nervous wreck as the balloon tottered upright, but will remember it as a unique experience to see the game spreading out on the Serengeti plain beneath her as the sun rose.
"They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there..."
Despite this passion for wildlife and Africa, Lindsay considers Australia her home now and loves the country. She travelled to Sydney to witness the closing weekend of the Olympic Games in September 2000; it made her proud to be an adopted Aussie!
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April 25, 2017
Re - One More Night - This is a sort of carry over from HRtopia and the hot mess that was The Heart of the Matter but this features the press secretary who was in love with the H of THOTM and had to leave when that h found out.
The h of this one has an interesting back story. She came from a very poor single parent home and was the last of six kids when her abusive father walked out on her mother. Her looks are the epitome of the passionate OW and she spent some time in a few affairs where she thought she was in love. But the men in her life treated her like a tart and when she got some career advancements based on bedroom talent rather than boardroom talent, she wised up to the fact that she kept falling for the wrong men and dedicated herself to sleek, elegant efficiency.
She has been determined to be a success in her field of public relations and advertisement since she was fifteen, and now at almost thirty, she is renowned and head hunted. She thinks she has made it, but she is still carrying a torch over the H from the prior book and living a life void of any emotional fulfillment and her brilliant but kindly elderly boss decides to do something about it.
He tells the h that he has invited her former boss and his wife to the annual company dinner and the h doesn't want to go. So her boss coerces her into going and helping out his nephew, who is working towards a doctorate in societal geography, with his book about some exotic tribe in Papua New Guinea for three weeks instead.
The boss deliberately misleads the h into thinking this is some young college boy with a penchant for accidents who needs a motherly hand in organizing himself and maybe the h could put in a good word for the kid to come learn the ropes of the family's luxury goods empire instead of wasting his time with a frivolous archaeology degree or whatever. The h agrees to go and the kid is currently in the Whitsunday Islands with a sprained ankle, so the h will get a bit of a holiday as well.
Off to the island resort we go and when the h gets there, she realizes that she has been totally played. The H is older than she is and completely her opposite in manner and free spiritedness. They have some arguments at first as the H is very carefree to her very controlled and almost militant persona, but the h soon learns to relax a bit and let her hair down. Then the h has a mini-melt down when the H attempts a bit of forced seduction and the h finds she likes it and she hates herself for it.
So the latter half of the book is one introspective and sorta vaguely suggestive mess. The h is still pining over the unattainable H from the first book, but she wants the H in this book and she has some inner tart shaming cause she likes to get her freak on.
She has finished transcribing the book and decides to leave, but the H is determined to wear her down and to that end, he calls his uncle and gets the lowdown on the former H she is pining for. The H decides he wants her, she is vacillating all over and having mental dramas in Sydney and another resort. But the H is persistent in his leech-like attachment and eventually they fall into bed. Then she leaves him after he proposes marriage, cause she doesn't see them working out as a couple because his background is wealthy and aristocratic, (the H is a baronet,) and she is still smarting from being manipulated by her elderly boss and still feeling inadequate or something. (It was still very vague and fuzzy at this point.)
The H lets her go until the elderly boss and his wife manipulate her some more, then she goes back to him and the H is relieved cause he was starting to worry. They declare their love and the h decides to marry him and then there is some debate over if she will show for the wedding. Which she does of course and the H's powerful lurve mojo has cured her mental instability and they are clubbing it up for the HEA.
Of course the book was much more dramatically naval gazing that what I have written here, but that is the gist of the story. The guy she was in love with at the start of the book never makes an appearance, which is a blessing-- cause even years of distance since I read it wasn't enough to remove the bad taste of him and his pathetic h.
(I don't recommend The Heart of the Manner unless you have greatly sinned and need some serious penance. But even then drink several shots or have a lot of cookies first - no worries, it will be completely understood and forgiven even if you DNF that book.)
However this one ended pretty sweetly and the first part was funny and well done. There was a some boggyness over the later h mental breakdown and emo-drama, but overall this isn't a terrible book and LA always gives us an interesting time in HPlandia.
The h of this one has an interesting back story. She came from a very poor single parent home and was the last of six kids when her abusive father walked out on her mother. Her looks are the epitome of the passionate OW and she spent some time in a few affairs where she thought she was in love. But the men in her life treated her like a tart and when she got some career advancements based on bedroom talent rather than boardroom talent, she wised up to the fact that she kept falling for the wrong men and dedicated herself to sleek, elegant efficiency.
She has been determined to be a success in her field of public relations and advertisement since she was fifteen, and now at almost thirty, she is renowned and head hunted. She thinks she has made it, but she is still carrying a torch over the H from the prior book and living a life void of any emotional fulfillment and her brilliant but kindly elderly boss decides to do something about it.
He tells the h that he has invited her former boss and his wife to the annual company dinner and the h doesn't want to go. So her boss coerces her into going and helping out his nephew, who is working towards a doctorate in societal geography, with his book about some exotic tribe in Papua New Guinea for three weeks instead.
The boss deliberately misleads the h into thinking this is some young college boy with a penchant for accidents who needs a motherly hand in organizing himself and maybe the h could put in a good word for the kid to come learn the ropes of the family's luxury goods empire instead of wasting his time with a frivolous archaeology degree or whatever. The h agrees to go and the kid is currently in the Whitsunday Islands with a sprained ankle, so the h will get a bit of a holiday as well.
Off to the island resort we go and when the h gets there, she realizes that she has been totally played. The H is older than she is and completely her opposite in manner and free spiritedness. They have some arguments at first as the H is very carefree to her very controlled and almost militant persona, but the h soon learns to relax a bit and let her hair down. Then the h has a mini-melt down when the H attempts a bit of forced seduction and the h finds she likes it and she hates herself for it.
So the latter half of the book is one introspective and sorta vaguely suggestive mess. The h is still pining over the unattainable H from the first book, but she wants the H in this book and she has some inner tart shaming cause she likes to get her freak on.
She has finished transcribing the book and decides to leave, but the H is determined to wear her down and to that end, he calls his uncle and gets the lowdown on the former H she is pining for. The H decides he wants her, she is vacillating all over and having mental dramas in Sydney and another resort. But the H is persistent in his leech-like attachment and eventually they fall into bed. Then she leaves him after he proposes marriage, cause she doesn't see them working out as a couple because his background is wealthy and aristocratic, (the H is a baronet,) and she is still smarting from being manipulated by her elderly boss and still feeling inadequate or something. (It was still very vague and fuzzy at this point.)
The H lets her go until the elderly boss and his wife manipulate her some more, then she goes back to him and the H is relieved cause he was starting to worry. They declare their love and the h decides to marry him and then there is some debate over if she will show for the wedding. Which she does of course and the H's powerful lurve mojo has cured her mental instability and they are clubbing it up for the HEA.
Of course the book was much more dramatically naval gazing that what I have written here, but that is the gist of the story. The guy she was in love with at the start of the book never makes an appearance, which is a blessing-- cause even years of distance since I read it wasn't enough to remove the bad taste of him and his pathetic h.
(I don't recommend The Heart of the Manner unless you have greatly sinned and need some serious penance. But even then drink several shots or have a lot of cookies first - no worries, it will be completely understood and forgiven even if you DNF that book.)
However this one ended pretty sweetly and the first part was funny and well done. There was a some boggyness over the later h mental breakdown and emo-drama, but overall this isn't a terrible book and LA always gives us an interesting time in HPlandia.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 9, 2016
A slow burn sort of book with lots of local color as the H/h travel from Whitsunday Islands to Sydney to some other resort with a great spa and food. Heroine has pulled herself up from her poverty-bound origins and is now a chic businesswoman who puts together an exclusive catalog of clothes and home fashion. Hero is a Phd candidate in geography, an English baron, a budding author, and nephew to h's boss. They meet when the heroine's boss sends her to Whitsunday to type the H's notes as he recovers from a broken ankle.
The attraction is immediate, but the heroine fights it because she doesn't trust her own judgment when it comes to men. Such a small conflict, but realistic, imo.
There's a cute scenes at the Sydney zoo, and the hero comes through with a lovely souvenir for the heroine. (Not a euphemism - a giraffe and an emu figurine) I really liked the scene where the hero forgot to write a speech and the heroine outlines something for him in forty-five minutes so he (who has the gift of gab) can wing it. She rescued him and he knew it.
The end is very satisfying and conveys the same tone that has been maintained throughout the book - they're both scared to get married, but even more scared not to. A quiet book, but with an intriguing hero and a complex heroine.
The attraction is immediate, but the heroine fights it because she doesn't trust her own judgment when it comes to men. Such a small conflict, but realistic, imo.
There's a cute scenes at the Sydney zoo, and the hero comes through with a lovely souvenir for the heroine. (Not a euphemism - a giraffe and an emu figurine) I really liked the scene where the hero forgot to write a speech and the heroine outlines something for him in forty-five minutes so he (who has the gift of gab) can wing it. She rescued him and he knew it.
The end is very satisfying and conveys the same tone that has been maintained throughout the book - they're both scared to get married, but even more scared not to. A quiet book, but with an intriguing hero and a complex heroine.
September 24, 2023
I really enjoyed this one actually, so maybe a 3.5. On the whole I'm a low angst kind of reader and this one was much more about the two of them and the internal conflict (particularly the h's hangups) with nothing much external bar the h's historic unobtainable crush and the H being very popular with the laydeez. This H, Rick, gave off a bit of a Susan Napier H vibe. I was picturing Kurt Russell. Adventurous, a bit disorganised, full of joie de vivre and charm whereas Evonne was a very chic, buttoned up, angst ridden career woman. His uncle (her paternalistic employer) sets them up. He sends her to a tropical island resort to help the H write up the book arising from his geography/ethnography/anthropology research. He leads the h to believe that Ricky is very young. They are attracted from the start but she is very reticent. He helps her loosen up and he sets her free to come back to him (with a little further interference from his aunt and uncle). It was low key but believable and I really liked them both.
February 5, 2025
This is 4 stars except h is unlikable. She is confused and dislikes herself and carries that over to belligerence.
February 9, 2026
Sorry, but an h who slept with two guys she worked for (and apparently enjoyed the perks) and then gets the hots for a married man is just not appealing.
April 7, 2012
One More Night is the 22nd romance novel by Lindsay Armstrong. Evonne Patterson, the “other woman” in The Heart of The Matter, has left the employ of the man she fell in love with, Robert Randall, and now works for Amos Doubleday. Amos convinces her that his young nephew, Rick Emerson, currently recuperating from a broken ankle, needs help organising his manuscript, a job for which Evonne is eminently qualified. But Amos is less than forthcoming with other details about Rick, like the fact that he is in his thirties, very rich and a baronet. Whist Evonne finds him attractive, he’s also highly aggravating and way out of her league. Rick seems determined to cure Evonne of the effects of Rob Randall, and have her for himself. Yet another Armstrong heroine who spends a lot of time thinking and utters lots of broken sentences with unclear meaning. Plenty of melodrama, although the hero seems likeable enough. Better Armstrong romances to come after this one.
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