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Bezig met laden... A Gentleman's Bidding (The Scarlet Salon)door Jean Wilde
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What can a desperate lady do to save her family from financial ruin? Auction her virginity.Emily Price is in desperate need of funds. With her family estate mortgaged and her brother not yet of age, it falls to her to save her family from financial ruin. What is a lady with no money or connections to do? Auction her virginity in London's most elite and notorious brothel.Heir to a baronetcy, James Hughes has always taken his role seriously. To secure his family's position in society, he knows he needs to marry well. But when he finds himself by chance at an auction in the infamous Scarlet Salon, he throws ambition to the wind to bed the lovely Miss Price.After their affair goes public in the biggest gossip rag in town, Emily must choose whether to cast her feelings aside and leave James to pursue his social ambitions, while James must decide if family and duty are worth giving up his chance for love.Content Warning: contains sexual content Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Emily Price is in trouble. Her family has fallen upon poor fortunes and her sweet, well-meaning mother doesn’t have a head for business. It’s up to sturdy, strong-willed Emily to save the family. She goes to a Madam in town at the Scarlet Salon with a proposal: auction off her virginity and set up an ongoing arrangement with a wealthy client that will allow her to pay off her family’s debts. You can’t help but admire Emily’s pluck and also the skill with which author Jean Wilde paints every detail in this regency romance, from the intricate dresses and bedrooms to the descriptions of everyday life with ladies maids and trips to the millner’s shop. For lovers of steamy romances, this book has it in spades, with delectable scenes as Emily is taught by Genevieve, another lady at the brothel, what to expect when she will need to please her “buyer.” This novel truly masters the art of the slow tease!
Then we meet James, who has done very well for himself as an engineer and is being driven a bit crazy by his meddling family. This regency romance has it all—scandal, meddling mothers, forbidden love. He and Emily hit it off instantly, and she is bought and paid for—to be his mistress. But as their feelings grow deeper, and both want the relationship to become something more, societal rules and the scandal of Emily’s virginity auction come back to haunt them.
I really enjoyed how this was written perfectly in regency style, but also had current sensibilities in place. The role of how women are victimized by societal rules and the actions of men during this time period and sometimes left with few options but working in a brothel is examined through Emily’s story and also those of her contemporaries like Genevieve. Even when Emily and James fall in love and both want to marry—a way out that both wish for—there are so many barriers in place. A delightful mix of heated steamy scenes, scandals to smooth over, and a romance that was lovely to watch unfold.
Please excuse typos/name misspellings. Entered on screen reader.
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