Just One Unforgettable Night

Deborah Cooke

Oct 2018 · Flatiron Five Tattoo Book 3 · Deborah A. Cooke

About this ebook

Lexi is haunted by her past...

One hot summer night, Lexi takes a chance and surrenders to temptation. She's been interested in mysterious Gabe for a long time and isn't surprised to discover he understands pleasure well enough to have invented it. But secrets come to light in the morning: Gabe and Lexi have met before—he remembers what she has tried to forget. He doesn't know about the baby she gave up and she didn't know about the wife he took to honor his brother's memory.

Gabe wants Lexi in his future...

Fourteen years ago, Gabe found the woman of his dreams and spent a perfect night with her—only to wake up alone. Meeting Lexi again, as the sister of his new partner, was bittersweet, since she didn't remember him. Gabe knows that he and Lexi belong together, just as he's aware that he has to help her heal from a secret wound before they can have a future. Caught between his principles and his love for Lexi, can Gabe find a solution that ends happily for them all?

This book was previously published under the title One Hot Summer Night.

Ratings and reviews

ONE HOT SUMMER NIGHT is the third instalment in Deborah Cooke’s contemporary, adult SECRET HEART INK slightly paranormal, erotic, romance series of novellas-a spin off from the author’s Flatiron Five series. This is artist and waitress Lexi , and Wolfe Lodge co-owner Gabe’s story line. ONE HOT SUMMER can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. Lexi and Gabe are connected through Lexi’s brother and Gabe’s business partner Spencer. SOME BACKGROUND: Secret Heart Ink is a tattoo shop, owned by the mysterious Chynna, located in Manhattan’s Flatiron Five. Along with her sidekick Tristan, during the full moon, Chynna creates one magical tattoo to set two hearts afire in the hopes of the recipient finding ever-lasting love. Told from several third person points of view including Lexi and Gabe ONE HOT SUMMER NIGHT follows the second chance romance between artist and waitress Lexi, and Wolfe Lodge co-owner Gabe. Fourteen years earlier Gabe had a one night stand with the woman of his dreams but a woman who disappeared in the blink of an eye. Fast forward to present day wherein Gabe, co-owner of Wolfe Lodge in Honey Hill, comes face to face with his past, his business partner’s sister Lexi, and the woman who is unaware of their previous connection. What ensues is Lexi’s seduction of our story line hero, and the potential fall-out as both keep secrets that could destroy their precarious hold on their new relationship. Lexi doesn’t believe in ever-lasting love after witnessing the break down and fall-out of her parents’ marriage. A one-night stand kind of girl Lexi’s attraction and seduction of Gabe is constantly rebuffed until Gabe succumbs to secrets yet revealed. Gabe refuses to talk about his complicated past, a past that will directly affect his relationship with the woman he has always loved. Taking the first step towards his happily ever after, Gabe is unprepared for the fall-out when Lexi runs without looking back. ONE HOT SUMMER NIGHT is a story of second chances; a rekindling, of a sort, for two people whose lives went in opposite directions eventually finding one another when the time was right. The premise is heart breaking and emotional; the romance is passionate; the characters struggle to move on from the past. Deborah Cooke invites the reader into a spirited yet tender, revealing and sensual tale of family, loss, commitment, and love.

About the author

Bestselling and award-winning author Deborah Cooke has published over seventy novels and novellas, including historical romances, fantasy romances, fantasy novels with romantic elements, paranormal romances, contemporary romances, urban fantasy romances, time travel romances and paranormal young adult novels. She writes as herself, Deborah Cooke, as Claire Delacroix, and has written as Claire Cross. She is nationally bestselling,Ê as well as a USA Today and New York TimesÕ Bestselling Author. Her Claire Delacroix medieval romance, The Beauty, was her first book to land on the New York Times List of Bestselling Books.

Deborah was the writer-in-residence at the Toronto Public Library in 2009, the first time TPL hosted a residency focused on the romance genre, and she was honored to receive the Romance Writers of America PRO Mentor of the Year Award in 2012. She lives in Canada with her family.