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A Most Scandalous Proposal

A Most Scandalous Proposal, February 2013
by Ashlyn Macnamara

Random House
Featuring: Julia St. Claire; Benedict Revelstoke
354 pages
ISBN: 0345534743
EAN: 9780345534743
Kindle: B00957T76W
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"The St. Claire sisters are practically spinsters. Will their ruination lead to love?"

Fresh Fiction Review

A Most Scandalous Proposal
Ashlyn Macnamara

Reviewed by Auriette Lindsey
Posted October 16, 2013

Romance Historical

In A MOST SCANDALOUS PROPOSAL, author Ashlyn Macnamara delivers not just one love story, but two. The St. Claire sisters are practically on the shelf. For different reasons, they've both rejected all offers, and their parents are desperate to marry them off before they run out of money. Julia and Sophia St. Claire aren't your typical Regency heroines. They're in their twenties, talk back to their parents, and turn away respectable suitors by the handfuls. Sophia is holding out for Mr. William Ludlowe, a rake who barely notices her. Julia claims she doesn't want to marry for love, and rejects any man who appears to have a tendre for her. The girls' stories move along quickly, with Sophia being compromised and forced into a betrothal early on. Then Ludlowe makes his move -- for the "wrong" sister, pushing Julia to take rash action to avoid marriage to the man her sister loves. Macnamara spins a twisting tale that just keeps throwing obstacles at the sisters and the men who love them. A MOST SCANDALOUS PROPOSAL is an entertaining and spicy read for anyone who enjoys historical romance in the early Regency period.

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SUMMARY

After watching her beloved sister, Sophia, pine over the ton’s golden boy for years, Miss Julia St. Claire has foresworn love and put herself firmly on the shelf. Unfortunately, her social-climbing mother and debt-ridden father have other ideas, and jump at the chance to marry Julia off to the newly named Earl of Clivesden . . . the man of Sophia’s dreams. Since resigning his cavalry commission, Benedict Revelstoke has spent his time in London avoiding the marriage mart. But when he discovers that the Earl of Clivesden has his sights set on Julia, Benedict tries to protect his childhood best friend from the man’s advances— only to discover that more than friendship is driving his desire to defend her. He surprises them both with the force of his feelings, but when Julia refuses him, and her father announces her betrothal, Benedict fears he’s lost her forever—until Julia approaches him with a shocking scheme that will ruin her for all respectable society and lead them into an exquisite world of forbidden pleasures.


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