title: One Night Stand: A Novel
author:  Roland S. Jefferson 
description: Jefferson's over-the-top fifth novel requires more suspension of belief and provides less entertainment than his previous work (The School on 103rd Street; Damaged Goods). The far-fetched heroine is 31-year-old divorce Myra Cross, "a cyclone of shameless sexuality" who's about to appear nude in a "professional women's" issue of Playboy, a prospect that leads her to consider abandoning her successful career as a Los Angeles public defender for the life of a national sex symbol. Jefferson, a forensic psychiatrist, depicts Cross as a coke-sniffing nymphomaniac and gives her supposed intelligence little opportunity to show itself. She's dragged into a vicious game of cat and mouse with corrupt cops when five of them frame a former client of hers-an equally improbable creation, a gangbanger named Napoleon T. Booker who litters his conversation with terms like "core aesthetic." Jefferson's irrepressible prose often verges on parody (Cross's dress rides "up her thigh like an out-of-control elevator"), though the book's opening chapter shows flashes of a greater talent.<br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  That Night
  
  
  (Prequel Novella to One Night Stand)
  
  
  JS Cooper & Helen Cooper
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Thank you for reading That Night.
  
  
  That Night is the prequel novella to the full-length book One Night Stand.
  
  
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  About That Night
  
  
  It was only supposed to be one night.
  
  
  When Liv Taylor met a handsome stranger at a friend's wedding, she decided to
  give in to temptation. It was lust at first site and when she followed the man
  she nicknamed Mr. Tongue into a room before the wedding ceremony, she
  experienced pleasure like she'd never experienced before. That was why she
  agreed to one night in his hotel room. One night of unbridled passion. That
  was all it was supposed to be. But then, her mystery man turned up after that
  night and his identity was no longer a mystery. It turns out that Liv's one
  night stand is about to get a whole lot more complicated and she has no idea
  wh