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A Passionate Proposition
A proposition she can't refuse?
Scott Tyler might want a red-hot affair with Anya Adams -- but that doesn't mean he likes her. On the contrary, he's managed to get her suspended from her brand-new job!
Realizing he's gone too far, Scott offers Anya temporary employment at his home. But having her around every day is self-control. Soon all he can think about is making Anya a proposition -- that she share his bed, night after night, to their mutual satisfaction....
Scott Tyler might want a red-hot affair with Anya Adams -- but that doesn't mean he likes her. On the contrary, he's managed to get her suspended from her brand-new job!
Realizing he's gone too far, Scott offers Anya temporary employment at his home. But having her around every day is self-control. Soon all he can think about is making Anya a proposition -- that she share his bed, night after night, to their mutual satisfaction....
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 2001
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About the author
Susan Napier
141 books153 followersPerhaps being born on Valentine’s Day was an omen that Susan Napier would become a romance writer. This New Zealand author has written over 30 Mills & Boon category romances since 1984. Napier and her husband Tony Potter met when they both worked at the Auckland Star newspaper. After they married, she left the newspaper to work for a film company where she learned the art of dialogue. After the birth of her sons, Simon and Ben, she was a freelance scriptwriter for documentaries. It was soon after that she decided to try her hand at writing the romance fiction she dearly loved.
She and her husband still live in the home they bought in Auckland shortly after their marriage.
She and her husband still live in the home they bought in Auckland shortly after their marriage.
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June 18, 2017
I read a lot of Harlequin Mills & Boon when my children were young & I thought I had what it takes to be a romance writer. To cut a long story short, I didn't. I had no talent for writing dialogue & no patience for the sexist, smouldering heroes. But I did enjoy some of the novels I read - mostly the ones by Australasian authors. One of my favourites was Susan Napier - I even went to hear her speak at an Auckland Library! This offering was written in 2001, long after I stopped reading romances & her work seems to have lost it's sparkle.
There is none of the humour of Napier's earlier work, a lot of the NZ details seem to be wrong (more than likely changed by an overseas editor.) For example, talking about being sued after an accident when ACC was still no fault. The opening scenes were a little silly & painfully drawn out. The Big Misunderstanding lacked punch. I was mentally rewriting it as I read.
Napier is still a dab hand with dialogue & Anya & Scott were an engaging pair, but I don't enjoy children in my romances & teens even less. I want total escapism!
Rating against other books in this genre - 3★. Good but not great & if I hadn't already read better books by Napier... well I would not be tempted to pick up another.
There is none of the humour of Napier's earlier work, a lot of the NZ details seem to be wrong (more than likely changed by an overseas editor.) For example, talking about being sued after an accident when ACC was still no fault. The opening scenes were a little silly & painfully drawn out. The Big Misunderstanding lacked punch. I was mentally rewriting it as I read.
Napier is still a dab hand with dialogue & Anya & Scott were an engaging pair, but I don't enjoy children in my romances & teens even less. I want total escapism!
Rating against other books in this genre - 3★. Good but not great & if I hadn't already read better books by Napier... well I would not be tempted to pick up another.
January 15, 2022
Yikes! I have no idea where I found this one, but not good. I liked the premise but the actual story? Not so much.
June 20, 2018
I did not want to read about a hero who slept with the heroine's cousin tonight. Not tonight or any night.
Pretty disappointed with Susan Napier...
Pretty disappointed with Susan Napier...
October 18, 2023
A Passionate Proposition by Susan Napier, first published in August of 2001, is a story that had me spellbound from start to finish. 26 year old Anya Adams is back at Eastbrook Academy for Girls where she was formerly a teacher, since then having moved to teach history at a local stat high school, filling in for a former colleague who has taken ill when the most life changing event in her life occurs.
32 year old Scott Tyler walks in on a situation that does not paint Anya in the most favorable light, the man she has labeled inside her head as her personal demon. Scott is in charge of his nephew who is staying with him while the parents are traveling for work, and Scott’s imagination runs on overdrive when he walks in on a scantily clad Anya with his nephew.
Scott, one of South Auckland’s leading barristers, with a solid reputation for winning difficult cases owing to his ruthless style is cross-examining witnesses had been on the interview panel when Anya had tried for her new position at a co-ed school, with Scott having deliberately set out to intimidate her through his probing questions.
In short, Anya would have lived happily if she had never come across Scott again, but when their paths cross the second time around, and then a third and fourth time, thus begins a battle of wills, lust of the kind that sets both of them afire, and kindling softer emotions that neither were prepared for.
As Anya gets to know Scott better, she is shocked by the things Scott has gone through, and in awe of the man he has become, when he had been taken advantage of by those he had placed his trust in. For Anya, it is a journey of self-discovery just as much, where she learns that she, the staid and average looking teacher who has ruled out passion in her life, is able to love so ardently and earnestly with the right man.
However, trouble comes calling from a source that Anya finds hard to say no to, and it will take trust of the kind that Scott may find difficult to muster, if the fragile love that blooms between the two is to be given any chance to grow and take root.
I loved this story to pieces. Scott was oh so sexy, quite different in every sense, managing to surprise the reader at every turn. When you think you have him figured out, he goes and proves you wrong. Scott could have turned out embittered given his most formative years, but instead, he turned into the kind of man who was twice bitten and extremely wary. But when true love calls upon you, there is no turning back, and in Anya, he finds his true mate, a woman who entices and arouses his baser emotions as much as she does his protective instincts.
I loved how raw some of the scenes were as they unfolded, how alive the characters felt, how intuitive as a heroine, Anya was. How sexy and playful the physical side of their relationship was when it happened. The witty banter between the two just sealed the deal from the start and Ms. Napier delivered on every aspect which just left me begging for more!
Recommended for fans of unusual category romances with heart and zeal!
Final Verdict: Ms. Napier is a sheer genius in delivering category romances with such emotion, grit, and heart, not to mention the heat of the toe curling variety.
Rating = 4/5
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32 year old Scott Tyler walks in on a situation that does not paint Anya in the most favorable light, the man she has labeled inside her head as her personal demon. Scott is in charge of his nephew who is staying with him while the parents are traveling for work, and Scott’s imagination runs on overdrive when he walks in on a scantily clad Anya with his nephew.
Scott, one of South Auckland’s leading barristers, with a solid reputation for winning difficult cases owing to his ruthless style is cross-examining witnesses had been on the interview panel when Anya had tried for her new position at a co-ed school, with Scott having deliberately set out to intimidate her through his probing questions.
In short, Anya would have lived happily if she had never come across Scott again, but when their paths cross the second time around, and then a third and fourth time, thus begins a battle of wills, lust of the kind that sets both of them afire, and kindling softer emotions that neither were prepared for.
As Anya gets to know Scott better, she is shocked by the things Scott has gone through, and in awe of the man he has become, when he had been taken advantage of by those he had placed his trust in. For Anya, it is a journey of self-discovery just as much, where she learns that she, the staid and average looking teacher who has ruled out passion in her life, is able to love so ardently and earnestly with the right man.
However, trouble comes calling from a source that Anya finds hard to say no to, and it will take trust of the kind that Scott may find difficult to muster, if the fragile love that blooms between the two is to be given any chance to grow and take root.
I loved this story to pieces. Scott was oh so sexy, quite different in every sense, managing to surprise the reader at every turn. When you think you have him figured out, he goes and proves you wrong. Scott could have turned out embittered given his most formative years, but instead, he turned into the kind of man who was twice bitten and extremely wary. But when true love calls upon you, there is no turning back, and in Anya, he finds his true mate, a woman who entices and arouses his baser emotions as much as she does his protective instincts.
I loved how raw some of the scenes were as they unfolded, how alive the characters felt, how intuitive as a heroine, Anya was. How sexy and playful the physical side of their relationship was when it happened. The witty banter between the two just sealed the deal from the start and Ms. Napier delivered on every aspect which just left me begging for more!
Recommended for fans of unusual category romances with heart and zeal!
Final Verdict: Ms. Napier is a sheer genius in delivering category romances with such emotion, grit, and heart, not to mention the heat of the toe curling variety.
Rating = 4/5
For more reviews and quotes, please visit A Maldivian's Passion for Romance
did-not-finish
July 1, 2022DNF @ 60% - this book is not engaging. I keep having to reread. The characters are not interesting to me.
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May 28, 2012
There was a LOT of depth to this story especially wrt to our hero. Wow! You read about that kind of stuff, but I've never really thought too much about it except to say, "Ew!" We are, of course, speaking of his being seduced for his baby-making abilities then eliminated from his daughter's life...until SHE needs HIM.
Makes my blood boil.
Anyway, aside from that, it is a truly fun read.
Makes my blood boil.
Anyway, aside from that, it is a truly fun read.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 22, 2016
It was okay. I found it hard to like the hero. Too arrogant in an annoying way. I did like him well enough in the end because of the way he explained himself, but by then it was a bit too little, too late.
The other thing that annoyed me was the obvious plot device that I figured out was going to happen from the first phone call. I hoped that it wouldn't be so obvious, but unfortunately it was.
The other thing that annoyed me was the obvious plot device that I figured out was going to happen from the first phone call. I hoped that it wouldn't be so obvious, but unfortunately it was.
October 2, 2021
I have been on a Susan Napier roll recently. She writes wonderful likeable and realistic characters, has steamy love scenes which don't make me cringe or skim, and has flashes of humour and witty dialogue which make her stories really engaging. Many of her plots are original too rather than formulaic.
I have to admit I did not enjoy this one as much as others. The hero's backstory had too much depressing gritty reality to it. It left me feeling flat and angry. It's a tribute to SN's gifts as a wordsmith, and the depth and perception she conveys in her characters that this affected me, whereas in other HP's I have been completely detached from the broken childhoods of heroes.
I have to admit I did not enjoy this one as much as others. The hero's backstory had too much depressing gritty reality to it. It left me feeling flat and angry. It's a tribute to SN's gifts as a wordsmith, and the depth and perception she conveys in her characters that this affected me, whereas in other HP's I have been completely detached from the broken childhoods of heroes.
March 31, 2023
Eu gostei, apesar do envolvimento real se deu depois da metade do livro. Achei ambos com personalidade fortes.
Eles se encontraram frente a frente num situação inusitada para ela e foi insultada por ele.
Primeiro ele - Scott Tyler - não a via com bons olhos quando ela foi contratada para cuidar das jovens do camping e tudo porque ela falou da prima cretina na entrevista com administradores, entre os quais um era ele. A partir daí ele a via como um pessoa não confiável.
A situação muda quando a filha adolescente dele chega e ele pede que ela a ajude nos estudos. Filha dele um graça de adolescente, sem papas na língua. Que chegou de surpresa e ele, porque ela não participou de sua vida se sentia inseguro. E queria o melhor para ela.
Então, eles começam a conviver, e nesses encontros trocam beijos e então, se tornam amantes. Cenas apaixonantes, por sinal.
Porém, como todo romance tem uma "quebra" em suspense, e, aqui me refiro ao pedido da prima dela para surrupiar uns papéis da casa dele. Eu achei aqui uma tola, porque a prima já tinha se envolvido com um namorado dela e não merecia que fizesse nada por ela, mas como era família e foi criada pelos pais dela- Anya, ela resolveu por em risco o relacionamento deles. Brigaram e se separam e no final, depois da poeira baixar, se reconciliam.
Mocinho super carinhoso, e ela tinha complexos de aparência, porém não desistia do que queria, sabia se impor.
(Spoiler) Mocinho tinha sido magoado nos dois relacionamentos em que ambas mulheres engravidaram e tomaram resoluções em que cabiam os dois.
Eles se encontraram frente a frente num situação inusitada para ela e foi insultada por ele.
Primeiro ele - Scott Tyler - não a via com bons olhos quando ela foi contratada para cuidar das jovens do camping e tudo porque ela falou da prima cretina na entrevista com administradores, entre os quais um era ele. A partir daí ele a via como um pessoa não confiável.
A situação muda quando a filha adolescente dele chega e ele pede que ela a ajude nos estudos. Filha dele um graça de adolescente, sem papas na língua. Que chegou de surpresa e ele, porque ela não participou de sua vida se sentia inseguro. E queria o melhor para ela.
Então, eles começam a conviver, e nesses encontros trocam beijos e então, se tornam amantes. Cenas apaixonantes, por sinal.
Porém, como todo romance tem uma "quebra" em suspense, e, aqui me refiro ao pedido da prima dela para surrupiar uns papéis da casa dele. Eu achei aqui uma tola, porque a prima já tinha se envolvido com um namorado dela e não merecia que fizesse nada por ela, mas como era família e foi criada pelos pais dela- Anya, ela resolveu por em risco o relacionamento deles. Brigaram e se separam e no final, depois da poeira baixar, se reconciliam.
Mocinho super carinhoso, e ela tinha complexos de aparência, porém não desistia do que queria, sabia se impor.
(Spoiler) Mocinho tinha sido magoado nos dois relacionamentos em que ambas mulheres engravidaram e tomaram resoluções em que cabiam os dois.
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April 30, 2022A proposition she can't refuse?
Scott Tyler might want a red-hot affair with Anya Adams -- but that doesn't mean he likes her. On the contrary, he's managed to get her suspended from her brand-new job!
Realizing he's gone too far, Scott offers Anya temporary employment at his home. But having her around every day is self-control. Soon all he can think about is making Anya a proposition -- that she share his bed, night after night, to their mutual satisfaction....
Scott Tyler might want a red-hot affair with Anya Adams -- but that doesn't mean he likes her. On the contrary, he's managed to get her suspended from her brand-new job!
Realizing he's gone too far, Scott offers Anya temporary employment at his home. But having her around every day is self-control. Soon all he can think about is making Anya a proposition -- that she share his bed, night after night, to their mutual satisfaction....
June 8, 2024
"A Passionate Proposition" is the story of Anya and Scott.
It was OK, like she was a teacher and he was a lawyer. The fact that his older teacher seduced him for a baby, then the heroines cousin aborted his baby and then he had an affair with the heroine was VERY icky. Also hope he gets therapy.
Safe
1/5
It was OK, like she was a teacher and he was a lawyer. The fact that his older teacher seduced him for a baby, then the heroines cousin aborted his baby and then he had an affair with the heroine was VERY icky. Also hope he gets therapy.
Safe
1/5
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March 31, 2015
Anya never knew why Scott Tyler didn't like her but when he foung her in an inappropriate situation with his nephew, she thought it was her end.
Fortunately, all the misunderstandings were cleared but it was to late: her immaculate reputation as History teacher was ruined and the school started a formal investigation.
Feeling guilty, Scott decided offer her an employ as the teacher of his recently discovered daughter.
As they spent time together, Scott found out Anya was very different from her cousin, Kate, who had abandoned him in the past after they have an affair while he bought Kate's inherit house.
Evidently, Anya didn't know any of this so she accept do her cousin a favor and search a box she had forgotten in Scott's home when the house was still Kate's property...
Fortunately, all the misunderstandings were cleared but it was to late: her immaculate reputation as History teacher was ruined and the school started a formal investigation.
Feeling guilty, Scott decided offer her an employ as the teacher of his recently discovered daughter.
As they spent time together, Scott found out Anya was very different from her cousin, Kate, who had abandoned him in the past after they have an affair while he bought Kate's inherit house.
Evidently, Anya didn't know any of this so she accept do her cousin a favor and search a box she had forgotten in Scott's home when the house was still Kate's property...
May 22, 2017
Leído el 22/08/2012
May 25, 2023
I enjoyed reading this but it felt like it was missing something it felt like it need a few more chapters
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