Product Description

Embarrassed after their night of passion, Jo hopes to never see Kelly Sambino again, especially when friends warn her of Kelly’s reputation as a runaround. When fall classes begin, Jo is as surprised as anyone to find Kelly has been hired to teach at the same college. She denies the attraction and refuses to be swayed by Kelly’s considerable charm, vowing never to repeat her summer indiscretion. Kelly insists she is not the womanizer others claim. She pursues Jo, breaking down her resistance and professing her love, only to have her reputation come between them again. In a moment of need, Jo turns to Kelly, accepting the physical comfort Kelly offers, while still denying her own heart . . . denying the love that has grown between them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #241705 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 209 pages

Review
Gerri Hill brings it all together in "One Summer Night". I loved it. -- A reader from Maine

Great Read! I'll watch for the next book by Gerri Hill - -- lesboreader from michigan

I couldn't put it down. . . read it in one night! -- Diane Keller, Rhode Island

I started reading this and didn't put it down until it was finished. -- Reader from Maine

There's only one word for this one -- HOT! -- S. Kirshner - Florida

From the Publisher
This one is HOT! We are sure you will be very happy with this choice of our new author. We are all anxiously awaiting the next work by Gerri Hill.

From the Author
I started writing One Summer Night in June of 1994. And it was hot, especially after having spent the last few years in the mountains of Colorado! The softball team in One Summer Night is a tribute to the city league team I labored on every Monday and Thursday night (when I was much younger!). Bev, the pitcher, was the leader, but I’m not sure if it was because she was the pitcher or because her mother owned a beer joint at the edge of town. The locals all raised their eyebrows when the team came to visit! Thanks to all those gals who made playing ball so much fun, especially Lori, who liked her women "sporty" and not "fluffy"!

A quick thank you to Stephanie Solomon, queen of Academy of Bards, who has been "itching" to get her hands on One Summer Night for years! And thanks, too, to my good friend, Marquita, (whose husband will die to know this!), who found Kelly Sambino to be "hot"!

I hope you all enjoy this, my first attempt at writing a little romance.

Customer Reviews

My favorite romance to date!!
I read One Summer Night in 2 nights. I loved the characters and the tension between Jo and Kelly is delicious! The story is laugh out loud funny in places, erotic in others, and sad too in places. I loved the characters. The author does a great job of bringing you back to that-"so in lust you could die" feeling as well as the angst of trying not to fall in love and risk heartache.

I will look for more of Gerri Hill's books. Highly recommended!!

Hot scenes but weak characters
One Summer Night is a first novel for Gerri Hill and is a promising beginning. Her romantic encounters are powerfully erotic and may prompt many readers to return to this story. However her characterization is rather flat and the plot is thin. Some women are portrayed rather one dimensionally and Hill, however unintentionally, sometimes falls victim to using some negative stereotyping.

An educated, thirty something college instructor, Johanna Marshall suffers from the loss of her parents as a child -- despite having been raised by loving grandparents who have accepted her lesbianism without strife -- and the betrayal of (in hindsight) a clearly inappropriately matched lover. For the last several years, Jo has climbed into her ivory tower and shut the door.

Dragging herself out to watch friends play in a softball tourney, Jo is drawn to a ringer brought in to boost the team she supports. The former college ball player is the attractive, intelligent Kelly Sambino. The two women are drawn together by an almost overwhelming attraction and end up spending a tremendously charged night together. The next morning Jo awakes to find Kelly, who had a game to play in the morning, gone. Despite their backgrounds in writing and communication the two women prove to be very poor communicators. Almost annoyingly so. Jo, confused and embarrassed by the night's impulsively, does not go to the ball field. Thus adding to the miscommunication particularly since Kelly lives in another town.

After the tournament, some of Jo's friends suggest that Kelly has a reputation as a "Don Juan." Thus Jo returns to hide in her academic tower, though the memory of their passion remains. Fall semester brings a new faculty member to Jo's department and it's Kelly. Still interested in Jo, Kelly tries to court Jo as well as clarify their earlier miscommunication. Jo spends lots of energy trying to keep Kelly at arm's length but calls on her for solice when her grandfather dies suddenly. Kelly is the more likeable of this hit-and-miss couple, although her willingness to put up with Jo's passive-aggressive behavior is rather masochistic.

Perhaps more annoying is the treatment of secondary characters. One of the few short and over weight dykes (most are lean, althetic, and beautiful) is depicted as insensative, desperate, and mean spirited with her attempts to trash Kelly to Jo in an effort to woo Jo for herself. As some of Hill's writing is quite moving, one hopes that her future novels will explore characterization and plot in a more complex manner.

Oh My!!!
This book was amazing! I read it in a few hours. It was impossible to put down. When I finished I went back and read parts again. This book has such intense passion and strong emotions that I couldn't help but think about it the entire following day. Do relationships like that really exist? One can only hope! I highly recommend this book and I can't wait for Gerri's next masterpiece!