Release Blitz: My One Night: Carrie Ann Ryan
Title: My One Night
Series: On My Own #1
Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 13, 2021
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A one-night stand is supposed to end once the sun rises. Only it doesn’t always work out that way.
I never expected this.
I didn’t want to go to another fraternity party, but when my friend pulls me in, I somehow find myself hiding in a corner with…him.
Dillon Connolly.
The smirking, so-called good guy with the shadows in his eyes.
A single glance, a sweet smile, and I let myself have one night of giving in.
I never expected her.
Elise Hoover haunts my dreams more than I care to admit. I never thought I stood a chance—until she said yes.
When a single night turns to two, I know I’m in over my head, but somehow, she makes me believe I can have anything.
Until the sun rises, and my past along with it.
I know I don’t deserve her, but now I have to fight to keep her…or save her from myself.
Dillon Connolly hasn’t had an easy life, but now that he has found a place with his brothers, things are looking up and he is working to feel like he deserves his place in the family. Moving into a house with other college students is the first step he is taking to stand on his own (even if his brothers and their partners are still nearby). He has a vision for what he wants to do after college, but is still working through the details in his head before he shares openly with his family.
Elise Hoover is quiet and reserved. If it weren’t for her best friend and roommate, she wouldn’t have been at the party that night, nor would she have worked up the courage to ask Dillon for one kiss, and then one night.
I loved these two. This story started out as a one-night stand with potential and turned into so much more. It’s been a few years since I was in college, but it sent me right back to those days of juggling work, school, and relationships. I loved watching the guys in Dillon’s house feel each other out as they went from strangers to roommates. As Dillon and Elise build their friendship from their one night, they also face the weight of so much around them. I was not expecting the side aspects of the story to pull so strongly at my emotions, and found myself invested in more than just the direct story of Elise and Dillon.
This is the first novel from the On My Own series, a spin off from one of Carrie Ann Ryan’s other series. I’ve read most of that other series and loved the differences in this one. This is solidly a New Adult story, with the college setting and challenges, but also pulls in threads from the adult series that she has already established. Though the angst level is higher because of the age and inexperience of the characters, it absolutely fit what they were going through and their personalities. It also helped that some of the drama led to the characters going through arcs that left them more confident in themselves and finding healing they wouldn’t have otherwise found.
I am looking forward to more from this group of friends. Though the guys haven’t known each other long, and they are all reeling from a loss, I can’t wait to learn more about their backstories and what brought them each to this place.
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Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance. Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Redwood Pack, Fractured Connections, and Elements of Five series, which have sold over 3.0 million books worldwide. She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over seventy-five novels and novellas with more in the works. When she’s not losing herself in her emotional and action-packed worlds, she’s reading as much as she can while wrangling her clowder of cats who have more followers than she does.
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