An Improper Situation

<p><i>An Improper Situation</i> transports you from rural Colorado to exciting - sometimes downright dangerous - Beacon Hill the heart of glittering Victorian-era Boston.</p><p></p><p><b><i>How could a well-bred intelligent woman not want two adorable children?</i></b></p><p>That's what attorney Reed Malloy asks himself after an exhausting train ride from Boston to a dusty Colorado town with two orphans in tow. He's not prepared for Miss Charlotte Sanborn who wears her independence like a suit of armor cloaks her identity behind her pen name and flat out refuses to raise her kin!</p><p></p><p><b><i>Of all the gall! How dare this man stride into her home and expect her to rearrange her life?</i></b></p><p>Charlotte won't risk any more heartache not after raising her brother by herself and watching him leave. So why do these children and this handsome stranger awaken a yearning for something more than the life she has painstakingly created?</p><p></p><p><b><i>One letter changes everything...</i></b></p><p>When Charlotte forsakes all that's familiar and enters Reed's world of Boston high society concealed malice abounds in the Beacon Hill mansions and ballrooms. Facing sinister forces and scorned women-and with passions ablaze-can Reed and Charlotte escape an <i>Improper Situation</i>?</p><p></p><p><i>An Improper Situation </i>is Book 1 in the Victorian-American series Defiant Hearts. Engaging believable characters attention to period detail and sensual romance-all in this series by <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author Sydney Jane Baily.</p><p></p><p>...the ending was perfect... Many wonderful characters including nasty villains and villainesses. I had a hard time putting it down! <i>~ Lady McNeill Mrs. Condit & Friends Read Books</i></p><p>Delicately crafted deliciously told. A book that transports you to a time and place from which you won't want to return. <i>~ Award-winning bestselling author Marliss Melton</i></p>