The First Proposal

🔥 A Spinster at Her Wit’s End. A Determined Gentleman. A Courtship That Begins with Blackmail. 🔥

Persephone “Percy” Blake has hit rock bottom—if rock bottom is being extorted by a ten-year-old and forced to scale a garden wall to retrieve a forbidden kite. Trapped in a miserable existence as an unpaid governess to her sister’s horridchildren, she has resigned herself to a life of servitude, spinsterhood, and possibly homicide if one more sticky little hand touches her. But when her rescue mission goes spectacularly wrong, she finds herself dangling from a tree, skirts over her head, giving the wealthy and far-too-handsome Algernon Dunne a very improper first impression.

Algernon had expected an uneventful afternoon tending his immaculate gardens—not an unexpected backside in his wisteria. But the moment he helps an irate, disheveled, and utterly fascinating Percy down from the tree, he knows exactly what he wants—and it isn’t just his peace and quiet back.

Determined to win Percy’s hand, Algernon embarks on a courtship filled with scandalous stares, shameless flirting, and entirely too much meddling. But Percy, wary of romance and deeply allergic to hope, refuses to believe that a man like Algernon could truly want a woman whose family sees her as nothing more than an inconvenience.

Algernon, however, is a patient man—and he has absolutely no intention of letting Percy slip through his fingers.

💋 Fast, funny, and deliciously steamy, this is a romance filled with disastrous first impressions, outrageous courtship, and a woman who is long overdue for her happy ending. Perfect for fans of Tessa Dare, Julia Quinn, and Eva Leigh.

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