An Intriguing Proposition

<p><em>An Intriguing Proposition</em> (novella length) takes you on a fast-paced carriage ride through the streets of Victorian Boston.</p><p><em>Insidious blackmail the threat of foreclosure and a fake engagement-all in one week!</em> Elise Malloy will do anything to protect her well-bred Boston family-even marry a stranger! Faced with overwhelming debt and threatened by the man she trusted she fights to save her home from foreclosure and her beloved brother from ruinous disgrace.</p><p><br></p><p><em>What a chowderhead!</em> Once upon a time upright banker Michael Bradley did the unthinkable. He humiliated the lady whom he greatly admired. Now he only wants to make amends by helping her out of a sticky situation and tell her his heart's true intentions.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Someone has an old score to settle.</em> When villainy of the worst kind seeks to destroy the Malloy family-and trap Elise in a loveless marriage-can Michael convince Elise to accept his own Intriguing Proposition?</p><p><br></p><p><em>An Intriguing Proposition</em> is the stand-alone Prequel in the Victorian-American romance series Defiant Hearts. Engaging believable characters attention to period detail and sensual romance-all in this series by highly acclaimed USA Today bestselling writer Sydney Jane Baily.</p>