Lucky Night

A Novel

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Pub Date Mar 25 2025 | Archive Date Mar 24 2025

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Description

Two people, one hotel room, and all the choices and complications that make up a life.
 
After six years of a stolen hour here, another there, tonight is going to be different—very different—for Nick Holloway and Jenny Parrish. They’ve booked a room in a new luxury hotel in Manhattan, where they’ll spend the entire night together for the first time. Expectations are running high for this brief reprieve from ordinary life: they both need a good bout of ravishing sex and witty conversation. 
 
But that’s not what they get.
 
Because they’ve barely gotten started when a smoke alarm goes off. Nick is annoyed, but not worried about what must be only a minor glitch. Jenny is anxious, guilty—is karma coming for them at last?
 
This existential page-turner seamlessly shifts between Nick and Jenny’s perspectives as the reality of their situation becomes apparent, and all their secrets, evasions and regrets come spilling out. Stripped of their defenses, disagreeing about everything, these two flawed, funny, very different people are forced to be honest—with each other and themselves—about what they want, where they’ve screwed up, and whether their affair is really as casual as it seems.
Two people, one hotel room, and all the choices and complications that make up a life.
 
After six years of a stolen hour here, another there, tonight is going to be different—very different—for Nick...

Advance Praise

Praise for Lucky Night

“An electrifying love story that defies all expectations. Lucky Night alternates between profound intimacy and terror, between claustrophobia and pleasure, and illuminates our conflicting desires for safety and the sort of exquisite connection that makes us feel alive. A dazzling novel.”—Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street

“Two characters locked in a hotel room having an affair go at it when every mask and protective layer is stripped away, and they are at their most vulnerable. Fun. Sexy. A little ‘dangerous.’”—Jay Ellis, author of Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)? and actor on Insecure

Praise for I Take You

“A salty, lively first novel . . . crackling, bawdy, and modern.”—Stephanie Clifford, New York Times Book Review

“This debut novel’s take on modern gender roles is aggressively provocative, with graphic sex. It’s also funny and, eventually, wise.”—People

Praise for Do This For Me

“Fun . . . Kennedy has a gift for snappy dialogue.”—New York Times Book Review

“Kennedy tackles gender relations at home and in the workplace in this frank, compulsively readable examination of how one woman balances her exploration of her sexual identity with her career and motherhood.”—Booklist

Praise for Lucky Night

“An electrifying love story that defies all expectations. Lucky Night alternates between profound intimacy and terror, between claustrophobia and pleasure, and illuminates our...


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ISBN 9780593800836
PRICE $28.00 (USD)
PAGES 288

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