Anniversary Celebration: The Propostion and The Proposal : Katie Ashley
Katie Ashley is celebrating the one year anniversary of The Proposition's release!
So take a look at this promo and reviews and enter the signed paperback giveaway!
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With her thirtieth birthday looming, Emma Harrison finds her biological clock clanging and the elusive knight in shining armor yet to appear. She’s running out of options, especially after her gay best friend backs out from being her sperm donor. Of course, there’s always a sperm bank, but Emma fears a donor mix-up might impregnate her with the spawn of Satan.
Resident company womanizer, Aidan Fitzgerald, is used to always getting what he wants, especially in the bedroom. When Emma spurns his advances at the company Christmas party, he's determined to have her no matter what it takes. After Aidan learns of Emma's predicament, he is quick to offer a proposition that will benefit them both. He will father Emma's child, but she must conceive it with him naturally. Not one for hook-ups or casual sex, Emma is reluctant to take him up on his offer, but his charm, coupled with her intense desire for motherhood, wins out.
Soon their baby-making sessions become more than just physical. Aidan can't seem to walk away from her while Emma begins to wonder if Aidan could be the one. But can Aidan leave his past behind to become the man Emma needs him to be?
See Katie Ashley's blog post talking about the one year anniversary of The Proposal.
I did not review this book when I read it before, perhaps because it left me heartbroken and flabbergasted. I had not read about there being a cliffhanger. So imagine me shocked and disillusioned when I got to the end. So by that point, I knew , I was going to re-read it when book 2 came out.
I have to say I loved it more this time. I think Katie Ashley writes with such a fun, sarcastic sense of humor. Aidan and Emma have such witty rapport, inside jokes, and you cannot help but giggle at such unique nicknames such as twatwaffle and douchnozzle.
The whole set up for this book was so unique. A woman with her biological clock ticking who needs a sperm donor. A hot, successful, manwhore who was rejected by her once is happy to help in order to get what he wants...her in bed.
"Here's my proposition. I offer to father your child, and you in turn, promise to conceive it with me naturally."
"A MWF sex schedule? How efficient."
But what I really liked about this book was how Emma and Aidan started to slowly find ways to spend more time together and how their relationship just progressed in a natural way to be "more".
"I'm glad to hear I'm coming up a little in your esteem. I would hate to have our future child scarred because his mother thought his dad was a heartless, sex-fiend asshole."
It wasn't for the fact that Emma wasn't deeply in love with Aidan. She was just too afraid of scaring him away. Their entire relationship was such a fragile balloon that she was afraid would pop at any moment.
I loved how gentle Emma tried to be with Aidan knowing that he is a total commitment-phobe and would easily run scared. It was good to see Aidan feeling vulnerable and unable to actually believe that he could feel the things he was feeling. Their love story was sweet and wonderful until Aidan's big mammoth fear set in.
He loved Emma. Fuck. He absolutely and completely loved her with every fiber of his being. And that very fact scared the hell out of him.
Commitment-phobic men always screw up and I knew bad things were coming. And by the end, yes I wanted to tie Aidan up and beat him over the head with my kindle yelling "stupid, stupid douchenozzle!". I kept trying to scroll my kindle pages hoping that was not really THE END. Seriously? I mean seriously?! sigh... Then the wait for book 2 The Proposal began. There were several release dates mentioned, but thankfully it is finally here!
In the weeks following Aidan’s betrayal, Emma has tried her best to move on. Ignoring his countless texts, voice mails, and flowers, she isn’t sure she wants to be won back by him. But Aidan isn’t going down without a fight—especially not until Emma lets him reveal the secret of his past that caused him to be so commitment phobic.
"I swear to God and all that's holy I wish I could take it back."
I was happy that The Proposal continues our story just a few weeks later. Aidan is doing what I hoped he would...begging doing whatever he can to try to rectify his mistake. I actually felt bad for him pretty early on because it was obvious he was trying his best to beg but now he is on the receiving end of being pushed away. I loved seeing him stepping up and trying to be what Emma needs him to be: a support, a caregiver, a father, and significant other. The fact that he knows what he wants and is not afraid to fight for it shows the growth he has made from the first book.
But he gets a taste of his own medicine in more ways than one in this book. Not only is he being held at arm's length since she is now afraid to commit to him, but also Emma has a hot Doctor Pesh aka Dreamy McBollywood willing to step right into Emma's life. So this time I wanted to shake Emma for being incredibly stubborn, call her a hypocrite, and yell "Emma Please NO! Just step away from the "Indian food carrying, Opera Loving Hottie!" As sweet as Pesh is (and I will be happy to read the next book The Pairing featuring him), I was TEAM AIDAN all the way!
"Feel us, Emma. It's right here, and all you have to do is accept it."
"Don't ever think Noah's in the way. He will always be the string that ties us together. He's our love growing inside you. He may not be the reason why I fell in love with you, but he's the reason why I got another chance at life"..."You saved me Emma."
I was thrilled that despite some rough times, we finally got to the good stuff about 3/4 of the way through. And we were not left waiting to see what happens next with this couple and the baby. It is refreshing for the happiness to really be part of the story and not just a blurb in an epilogue(although I liked the epilogue too.) They just made my heart melt.
I was thrilled that despite some rough times, we finally got to the good stuff about 3/4 of the way through. And we were not left waiting to see what happens next with this couple and the baby. It is refreshing for the happiness to really be part of the story and not just a blurb in an epilogue(although I liked the epilogue too.) They just made my heart melt.
"There is going to be good times and bad times and heartache and joy. Don't ever think that your love isn't as strong or as beautiful as anyone else's. It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that is worth having."
Other books in this series:
The Party (prequel novella .5)
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Coming off a break-up with his latest “friend with benefits”, the last thing Aidan Fitzgerald needs is a family hassle about his bachelor status. But after standing up as godfather for his great-nephew, Mason, that’s just what he gets at the Christening Party. Escaping the wrath of his father and sisters, he wants nothing more than to get to the company Christmas party. There he knows he can knock back a few stiff drinks and find some new no-strings-attached girl to take home for the night.
Neither Aidan nor Emma could imagine what fate had in store for them at the party.
The Pairing (book 3)
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Expected Winter 2013/early 2014
The Pairing: A Companion Novel to The Proposition and The Proposal.Pesh’s love story with Megan—Aidan’s niece and baby Mason’s mother.
Expected Winter 2013/early 2014
The Pairing: A Companion Novel to The Proposition and The Proposal.Pesh’s love story with Megan—Aidan’s niece and baby Mason’s mother.
Katie Ashley is the New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Best-Selling author of The Proposition. She lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia with her two very spoiled dogs and one outnumbered cat. She has a slight obsession with Pinterest, The Golden Girls, Harry Potter, Shakespeare, Supernatural, Designing Women, and Scooby-Doo.
She spent 11 1/2 years educating the Youth of America aka teaching MS and HS English until she left to write full time in December 2012.
Katie Ashley is giving away a signed copy of The Proposition and The Proposal to one winner!
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