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He'll be any man she wants--except himself.
A Strangers on a Train Story
Meet me at the train museum after dark. Dress for 1957.
When Mandy joins an online dating service, she keeps her expectations low. All she wants is a distraction from the drudgery of single parenthood and full-time work. But the invitation she receives from a handsome man who won't share his real name promises an adventure--and a chance to pretend she's someone else for a few hours.
She doesn't want romance to complicate her life, but Mandy's monthly role-playing dates with her stranger on a train--each to a different time period--become the erotic escape she desperately needs. And a soul connection she never expected.
Yet when she tries to draw her lover out of the shadows, Mandy has a fight on her hands...to convince him there's a place for their fantasy love in the light of day.
Warning: Contains sexy role-playing, theatrical application of coal dust, and a hero who can rock a pair of brown polyester pants.
17,000 words; 66 pages.
- Sales Rank: #519628 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-04-02
- Released on: 2013-04-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"This is the best short story I think I've ever read. Ever. I absolutely adored every single thing about it. . . . I will most definitely be recommending Big Boy to as many people as I can." --Angela for Fiction Vixen, A review
"Every single page has an impact. I love how it all plays out in the end. A really sexy story, with a darker overtone." --Mandi for Smexybooks, B+ review
"Ms. Knox could have doubled the page count to make us happy, but she could not have told us more story than she does in about 60 pages. . . . These are real characters, so real I think I know how they take their coffee and would recognize them from their step." --Mean Fat Old Bat, A- review
"Another hit out of the ballpark for Ruthie. Big Boy takes two people, adds a little mystery and creates a delightful realistic romance. At under 100 pages, you won't even notice it's a novella, you've had such a ride." --Brunette Librarian
"I simply love this novella. There are some stories that just hit you at a visceral level; the writing here is so authentic, it speaks to my soul." --Sunny for Love Affair with an eReader
"I loved this story. It was different, but it was so freaking good. Really amazingly creative and heartwarming. LOVE!" --Smitten with Reading, A- review
"Mandy was such a genuinely real character and that's one of Ruthie's talents. She writes people in such a realistic way that you can imagine sitting on their couch having a glass of wine and talking about what outfit she is going to wear to her next Tuesday date. She had me laughing and she had me cringing and she had me smiling like a fool." --Jaime for Fic Fare, 5 stars
About the Author
Ruthie Knox figured out how to walk and read at the same time in the second grade, and she hasn't looked up since. She spent her formative years hiding romance novels in her bedroom closet to avoid the merciless teasing of her brothers and imagining scenarios in which someone who looked remarkably like Daniel Day Lewis recognized her well-hidden sex appeal and rescued her from middle-class Midwestern obscurity.
After graduating from Grinnell College with an English and history double major, she earned a Ph.D. in modern British history that she's put to remarkably little use. These days, she writes contemporary romance in which witty, down-to-earth characters find each other irresistible in their pajamas, though she freely admits this has yet to happen to her. Perhaps she needs more exciting pajamas.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Angieville: BIG BOY
By Angela Thompson
I . . . I am just not going to be able to pull off being at all dignified about this book. I couldn't possibly manage it and, what's more, I am not the least bit interested in trying. Because this book is so good it makes my teeth hurt. And I just wasn't expecting teeth-hurting goodness, you know? I was expecting a bit of fun, an engaging evening. It's a novella, for crying out loud! How much awesome can Ruthie Knox pack into 66 pages? Honestly. I should just stop asking myself that question. It doesn't even signify anymore in a world of Courtney Milan and Ruthie Knox novellas. I read Knox's How to Misbehave novella not long back and thought it was extremely cute. And so when I heard about this STRANGERS ON A TRAIN compilation, I knew I'd be reading Knox's contribution for sure. I love the story behind this anthology and how authors come together behind a single idea and go on to interpret it in different ways.
Mandy has been living in limbo for too long. Ever since her sister died, she's been Mama to her baby nephew Josh. And transitioning from single professor of history to single mother hasn't been at all smooth. She loves Josh with a fierceness that sometimes frightens her, but she can't seem to reconcile who she seems to be now with who she was. And so when her friend and colleague Lisa convinces her to try an online dating site, Mandy is intrigued when she runs across eight different profiles for the same guy. She contacts him, agreeing to meet one night at the local train museum. And it is as though a lifeline has been thrown out. Now, once a month, Mandy meets this man whose real name she does not know. They never talk about their real lives. The come incognito, stepping away from reality--just for one night--to be someone else. And even though she knows it's not healthy (it couldn't possibly be healthy), Mandy is amazed to realize that every incarnation, every persona she crafts, every story she tells, allows her to reframe her world in terms she can accept. This man, this stranger she looks for in the nameless faces on the streets every day, is unknowingly aiding her in understanding her new life. The problem is, of course, he's also changing what she is looking for, from anonymity and escape to connection and permanence. And Mandy knows very well how little he is interested those things. There must be reasons for the life he's chosen, after all. And despite her nascent hopes, Mandy is pretty sure those reasons will prove wholly incompatible with real life.
I still can't quite wrap my brain around how much I love this story, how completely it consumed me. I love it so much I'm actually fairly desolate a print copy doesn't exist for me to hug (I've just never been able to bring myself to hug my Nook). But my tactile issues aside, it is enough that it exists at all. Because reading it gave me every single last one of the feelings. I may actually have held my breath for the entire 66 pages. My heart pounded and my throat tightened with sympathy for Mandy and her agonizing situation, the lengths that she went to to keep Josh safe and happy, to keep her academic life rolling, to keep herself from going off the rails doing it all. I understood her. Oh my, did I understand her. And I couldn't look away. Not from her and not from the words on the page for fear she would be left alone to cope with the solitary, exhausting hand she'd been dealt. And I didn't want that. I didn't want her to be alone.
***
When Paige and I were kids, we both thought we'd have big families one day. I imagined a husband and three children, every little girl's version of domestic bliss. Then I went to college, and I spent the summer after my sophomore year as a camp counselor in Colorado. The job was relentless. Cabins full of eight-year-olds for three weeks at a stretch. They never stopped needing me for one second. I felt like I was suffocating.
That's when I decided I wasn't cut out to be a mother. I was always the better student, anyway. I focused on school and let Paige focus on motherhood. She found her husband, her scrapbooking group, her happy domesticity. I went to grad school and fooled around in an unserious way with unserious boys.
I pet Josh's back, breathing against the solid weight of his sleeping body pressing into my neck, my breasts, my belly. I wouldn't trade him for the world.
I want him to have everything, but all he has is me.
***
For such a quiet, intimate story, it packs a hell of an emotional punch. In fact, I was so unprepared for that punch I actually found myself in tears (a fairly rare occurrence) at one point. Real tears. The ones that only fall when you suddenly and unexpectedly encounter a specific, shared emotion within the leaves of a book. I'm really not sure what else to say, except that I loved the history of trains. I loved the costumes, the slang, the troubling, stifled longing. I loved the knowing attention to detail with which Ms. Knox painted everyday life. I loved Mandy and her man. Most of all, I loved the way she was afraid but had the courage to love anyway. And to say it in so many words. Brava.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Ms. Knox, Where have you been all my life?
By NQT
It was the reclusive J. D. Salinger who said, "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though." Honestly, I feel the same, in that it doesn't happen much, but when it does, wow.
I want to call up Ms. Ruthie Knox and congratulate her on this novella. I wish I could. I'd tell her not to read the three star reviews, because they mainly just talk about the fact that this NOVELLA is short. Um, yeah, it's a NOVELLA. But then I'd talk to her about how proud I was for a romance writer to write real, gritty characters. Here's the thing, I love romance. But more often than not the characters are cardboard cutouts of someone else's work that was published in the 90s. I'm sick of it. I'm so tired of it that I no longer stand up to snobbish readers, who tell me that romance is stupid. I can't say I disagree anymore, because most of the romances I've been reading are that disappointing. But then I'd tell Mr. Knox how she makes me believe in romance writers again. She makes me--me! A cynic--believe in the power of love again.
The protagonist of the book, Mandy, teaches at a university, and being an academic myself, I don't think I've ever appreciated more a writer's understanding of how hard it is to teach, to get tenure, and how little money I make. So, yes, I was immediately drawn in to Mandy and her plight, taking care of her sister's baby boy after her sister died. Further, after suffering a major death, I also appreciated how Mandy grieved, yet didn't. She never states she misses her sister, but with her bulldozer personality I understood she didn't have time to deal with that. The man in Mandy's life remains a bit of a mystery until the end, but that ending was just SO good that I almost up and bawled. Being a bulldozer personality, I don't have much time to deal with that. Tee-hee! But I did almost cry, which is a lot for me.
I've read two other works by Ms. Knox, and plan to gobble up all her other books like manna.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
An Entertaining Treat
By BookGeek
When I started this book, I really did not expect to like it. It is so different from what I usually read and it is a short story, but I liked it a lot. Mandy Sharp is a professor and a single mom to her sister's child. Mandy is the consummate professional and lives a very neat and tidy life. No complications. She has a kid, that's complication enough. Except, Mandy has a monthly appointment with a stranger. Once a month, Mandy dresses up and pretends to be a completely different person with a man whose name she does not know.
Strange start, right? Yes, but it evolves into an adventure. Mandy is braver than I and I was glad to live her fantasy. To meet a handsome stranger in a place and time that does not truly exsist. To be whoever you want and do whatever you want without consequences. What a life?
Of course, since this is a story, things get complicated. Mandy realizes that it doesn't matter that she doesn't know his name and she doesn't know what he does. She loves her stranger. Now to get him to follow her into the light and into an actual grown up relationship. This is where the fun comes in.
I liked Mandy a lot. I liked that even though she was doing this incredibly risky thing, Mandy is never stupid. I liked how easily she took in her sisters child and raised him as her own. I loved how she refused to settle and once she decided what she wanted she went after it.
This book is entertaining and a treat. Ruthie Knox somehow manages to tell a unique, interesting and honest love story in 66 pages. She also manages to write sexy scenes, give Mandy a good best friend and the mysterious stranger a very intense back story. This is why I will always read Ruthie's stories. She is fantastic with character and even better and throwing two different people together and giving them chemistry on the page.
This book is short, but a lot of fun. Due to my ingrained dislike of short stories, I was not completely satisfied. I wanted to know more, but that is my own issue. Pick up this novella, read it and love it. I highly recommend it.
Fans of Ruthie Knox (About Last Night), readers of Contemporary Romance and anyone who likes when two people have lots of baggage, but fall in love anyway.
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