He makes a proposition – he’ll father her child if they can conceive it the “old fashioned way”. Aidan Fitzgerald is the company horn dog – good looking and smooth, with a reputation for loving and leaving.Īidan wants to get into Emma’s pants. She has a plan to have a child on her own via donor insemination and when the book begins, she is angry with her friend, Connor, for pulling out of their agreement to have a child together. Consequently, I knew almost nothing about The Proposition going in.Įmma Harrison is 30, single, with a biological clock, which is ticking out of control. I gather it has been very popular and is one of those books, which rode the Fifty Shades of Grey wave. I hadn’t heard of this self-published series before it came up on the list of possible review titles.
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