Julie Greene lives the sophisticated New York life style working for the magazine, Stiletto, THE magazine to work at, as a full-time columnist writing articles on The First Date as her forte. Her friends Grace and Riley write the following articles of Love and Sex, respectively. Horrified, her boss Camille has just issued an order that she is to write next month's article on How To Take Relationships To The Next Level. Julie has never been there and done that. Her dates are short ones consisting of just the first level; not to mean that they haven't included sex. Her helpful friends have found a solution for her. Julie will pick a subject to date and carry it to the next level, then drop him before the proposal in order to gather her material first hand for the article.

Wall Street executive, Mitchell Forbes, a straight laced guy needing commitment and forever love, has just ended a relationship as there was no chemistry for him. His co- worker and friend, Colin, challenges him with Yankee season tickets that he can't use a woman for sex and companionship and then set her free before talking about babies and marriage. At the same time Colin chooses Julie as the victim, Julie's friends have chosen Mitchell, an opposite type than Julie has ever dated, for her subject. The further into the dating, the more their quirky secrets turn on them. Sex is the most erotic that Julie or Mitchell has ever experienced with anyone else. They find they genuinely like each other and actually feel comfortable and happy. Revealing both their deceptions is about to screw up the best thing either has ever had.....real love and total chemistry.

I loved AFTER THE KISS! It was funny and exciting all the way through. The quirkiness and cleverness throughout was completely unexpected at the least expected moments. She took a classy, sophisticated woman of the world and a stodgy unstylish, and supposedly boring man, and turned them into a fantastic heart-warming love affair. This is a book in The Sex, Love, and Stiletto Series and I can't wait to read others.

AFTER THE KISS definitely captures your attention and keeps you smiling and chuckling from the first to the last page. A definite yes to this refreshing book!