Hot Boss Wicked Nights

Undressed by the Boss #6

by Anne Oliver

Acting impulsively, Kate Fielding indulged in one night of steamy sex with a stranger—but her actions came back to haunt her when she discovered that her passionate lover was none other than her new boss, Damon Gillespie!Mortified, Kate has to fly to Bali with Damon to a luxurious holiday resort for business. Kate wants to prove she can be utterly professional, but ten sultry nights with her bad-boy boss are going to test her resolution to the limit....

Genres: Harlequin, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin Presents, Contemporary

Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Mojca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kate Fielding. 30 years old. Works in a travel agency. Comes from a large, conservative family with an overprotective father. Rather reserved when it comes to men, because she’s been burned by her cheating fiancé three years ago. Kate doesn’t do casual.

So what is she doing in a room above a pub, recently escaped from a hen-night from hell, dressed in a flimsy belly-dancer costume jumping an unshaved, golden-eyed stranger in a black T-shirt and jungle-green cargo pants?

Was it all due to her friend’s needling? Probably. Lapse in judgment? Most likely. Will she want a repeat performance? Definitely not!
She doesn’t even know the guy. And she escaped as soon as he took a business call. If business is more important than a one-night stand with a masked stranger so be it.

Well, she will have to rethink her plan, because the rugged, cargo-pants wearing, stranger, walks straight into the travel agency’s conference room two days later. In an elegant suit. Apparently she’d had a brief encounter of the third kind with her new boss.


I saw this one in a special offer package on the HQ website, and though I’m not a Presents fan (the titles are usually toss-the-cookies worthy), I was inexplicably drawn to the cover. Then I read the blurb and I was hooked.

What a great, light, enjoyable, quick-read romance this was. No suspense, no damsel in distress, just a straight-up feel-good love-story in the making.

Since it is a Harlequin, the outcome was obvious from the start, but it was still a pleasure reading about these two complete opposites finding their true happiness together.
Of course, this—yet again—being a Harlequin, it wasn’t that easy. They both had quite a lot of baggage under their belt, painful pasts to overcome, but they did in fact overcome everything, it took the hero (predictably) a little longer to get it, and thought the ending was a little flat (no fireworks as I expected) and a bit out of character for the hero (though the onion was a sweet thought), it still delivered what it set out to.

A lovely, light-weight, quickie of a romance.

[Jessica Reads It · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hot Boss, Wicked Nights is book # 6 of the Undressed by the Boss Series by Harlequin presents.

Our MC, Kate has a demure upbringing which has significantly impacted her ability to attract the opposite sex. This coupled with the fact that she was hurt by her idiotic ex and she has just near given up. Nearing the 30 year mark she decides to throw caution to the wind and jump a sexy stranger. Do I think it was worth it for Kate to abandon her morals for a seductively hot and passionate night with a stranger (probably not, but it was entertaining).

Harlequin novels are very straight forward and you can usually tell the plot line from off the bat. Was it predictable- uhh yeah, was it laugh out loud funny- you bet, did I enjoy Kate squirming realizing she did the horizontal tango with her new boss you betcha 🙂

This was a quick and flirty read with no frills or fuss and right to the point. I got this during my Harlequin phase many moons ago and still like to watch the covers and read the blurbs when I am in the mood for some simplistic yet steamy romances.

[Kristque Soul · Rating 2 out of 5]

too cliche

[elstaffe · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. Hero was pleasantly unlike a typical Presents hero, but heroine apparently did not know how to Internet, which drove me crazy.
Even in 2009, in Australia, how do you not look up the guy who's going to be your new boss and see he owns all these companies?

Also, the teaser about Bryce maybe having a gambling debt/embezzling is never really followed up on, except with something vague about him sucking at accounting and not paying his bills on time. Which...really?

Bah.

[Bookabulary · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ahhh, the plot wasn't too original and I picked it up anyway because I was hoping to get a different twist than the usual. I was left a bit hanging because I didn't manage to connect to the story or the characters until the very end. There's alpha male-ness that can be tolerated but in this book, I just drowned in it.

[Modesty_b · Rating 3 out of 5]

although i liked it while reading i cannot say that i'll read it again. a one-time good read. It has all the points of a good story and i liked the ending too.
all in all a pleasant book with lots of steamy sex...

[Monica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Aquí no hay amor-odio. Algo "diferente".

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

DNF at pg 55. If a Harlequin hasn't caught me by this point, it never will. The author's writing style is fine, but there isn't enough plot tension or controversy to grab/keep my interest.

[Kiela Joseph]

enjoyable