5 Smooches
Synopsis
Simon and Caroline are back for another round of baking, banging, and big life changes. Settling in, but never settling down, Caroline has finally struck a balance between the professional and the personal. As one of the top interior designers in San Francisco, she travels all over Northern California between nook time with Simon.
Perpetual globetrotter Simon has cut his frequent flyer miles in half over the last year, preferring to balance his professional and personal life, as well.
The next step in their lives seems preordained—toasts, veils, and the aisle of rose petals. But when an accident on a photo shoot in Southeast Asia brings Caroline the most terrifying phone call she could ever imagine, she has to ask whether “till death do us part” is a more realistic prospect than faces most couples.
It’s been a grand adventure, and Caroline and Simon wouldn’t go out without the best surprise ending ever. One part sexy, one part laughter, a dash of exotic locales, and one pink nightie, mixed with passion, and you’ve got Last Call. Served with a side of Clive.
Review
“I knew I should have changed your name from Nightie Girl to Naughty Girl.”
Last Call is absolutely everything you expect and hope for from a Simon and Caroline novella. It is sweet and sexy and both endearing and hilarious. Alice Clayton has a way of writing a book that you know you will want to read over and over again.
“I am going to get Neil, a few more pieces of that wedding cake to go, and let him eat me while I eat the cake.”
When we last left Simon and Caroline they had bought a house and were living together so now the pressure is on from their friends for them to move to the next stage of weddings and babies. Watching these two previous care free people adapt to co-habiting and merging their lives is exciting and stressful all at the same time. If you are like me and have fallen in love with not one but both of these characters your heart races whenever their relationship is put to a test because you desperately want them to have and keep their Happily Ever After.
“Oh my goodness, yes. Simon? Holding a baby girl? It was like a bomb of cute went off inside me.”
When tragedy strikes while Simon is on a shoot halfway around the world the happily ever after that seemed so clear for these two is put to the test. For being a short novella this story really had everything I had hoped it would. It had a great love story, a bit of drama, some good ole sexy times and a cast of characters that leave you wanting more.
“No one ever tells you to remember these moments. To photograph them in your mind, develop them into memories, to have them easily accessible and on instant recall when you need them later.”
I have yet to read a book by Alice Clayton that I could put down and this was no different. After spending several books falling in love with her other characters it was treat to get back to the two that started it all! I cannot wait to see what suprises the future holds for Simon and Caroline.
“You’re really going to want to hold on for this one, Nightie Girl.”
~miranda
