This is a Hallowe'en story complete with masked characters and a party. Lucille Vandenberg has moved to Washington DC and is looking for a man in OH NAUGHTY NIGHT! Not a life partner, or anything, just a good-looking man she can consider hopping into bed with after a lively party. He's got to be smart and interesting to talk to; she's worked in Rwanda and got out of a relationship with a man so self- absorbed he barely knew her, so she thinks she's matured enough to know what's right. Not asking for much is she?

Dressed as a witch - the seductive type - with a half- mask, Lucille looks just right with her girlfriends at their local Hallowe'en party. She attracts the attention of a magazine journalist called Chaz Browning, also there to have fun. Lucille and Chaz knew each other when they were kids in Maryland, but he doesn't recognise her now under the mask. Pity they never got on in the past! He was the geeky serious boy and she was the careless trickster. Now he's got a body to wow any woman and an interesting, well- travelled life. Lucille is more than keen, but she can't risk letting the mask slip. If Chaz knows who she is, end of party. After all, she caused him to break a bone, and she once poured a milkshake over his head.

OH, NAUGHTY NIGHT is a fun, erotic story of dancing at a party, getting seriously hot and close, but with the lady hiding her identity; so that next day the guy wishes he knew who to date and she in turn wishes he doesn't look so disappointed when he stops in the street to say hi.

OH, NAUGHTY NIGHT is also a thoroughly modern story in which a married couple of ladies throw a party to celebrate that they are going to have a baby. Though both Chaz and Lucille grew up in conservative homes, they have grown beyond that and are able to wish these new friends all the best in whatever way they prefer to lead their lives. So there is a lot to like for today's reader.

Amid the rest of the holiday season's festivities we see a more serious side to the hot romance; after all, a relationship needs to work outside the bedroom. I enjoyed OH NAUGHTY NIGHT! and while I wasn't familiar with Leslie Kelly's works I'll be looking out for them from now on, given her sexy tales of well-drawn characters in awkward situations.