Propositioning the Playboy by J.M.Stewart-Review, Excerpt & Giveaway Tour
Propositioning the Playboy
The Blue Room #2
by JM Stewart
Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic, romance
Release Date: October 11, 2019
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 11, 2019
Rule #1: Don’t fall in love. Rule #2…see rule #1…
Grace Williams doesn’t need a hero. She can take care of herself, thank you very much. Surviving foster care and becoming a respected scientist certainly taught her how. Now, she’s finally ready to do something for herself and have a baby. All she’ll need is a genetically blessed donor who won’t get any ideas in his head about sticking around after the job’s done. And she has the perfect gorgeous, commitment-phobic donor in mind.
Liam McNamara doesn’t want a relationship. Being abandoned by his mother at a young age and his failed marriage cured him of any romantic notions he might’ve had. But when his best friend’s sexy older sister asks him for a favor, he can’t say no. And if he manages to give her a few–or a few hundred–orgasms in the process? All the better. It’s a winning proposition all the way around.
It’s not long before their best laid plans are blown out of the water by the last thing either of them expected to get out of the deal–genuine feelings. Maybe love isn’t such a losing proposition after all…
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REVIEW: PROPOSITIONING THE PLAYBOY is the second instalment in JM Stewart’s contemporary, adult THE BLUE ROOM erotic, romance series. This is thirty-five year old scientist Grace Williams, and co-owner of the Blue Room Liam McNamara’s story line. PROPOSITIONING THE PLAYBOY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous instalment is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Liam and Grace) PROPOSITIONING THE PLAYBOY follows the brother’s best friend to lovers relationship between thirty-five year old scientist Grace Williams, and co-owner of the Blue Room Liam McNamara. Grace Williams is thirty five years old, with no current prospects for the future, and in such, our heroine has considered becoming a single mother. Having lusted after her brother’s best friend and business partner Liam McNamara for as long as she can remember, Grace makes Liam an offer he struggles to refuse-father her child, the old fashion way leaving Grace to raise their child, on her own. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Grace and Liam, and the potential fall-out as their time together comes to a close.
Liam McNamara is the co-owner of the high-end sex club The Blue Room but is taken aback when his best friend’s sister takes advantage of what the club has to offer. Having been raised in the foster care system along with Grace’s brother Jake, Liam vowed never to have children but struggled with someone else fathering Grace’s child.
The relationship between Grace and Liam is one of immediate attraction; a best friend’s sister relationship wherein Liam has promised to look after Grace but in doing so believes he should keep his distance for the sake of his friendship. Grace Williams has issues of low self esteem, and struggles to achieve the almighty ‘O’. There are some scenes of light bondage and sensory depravation. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and seductive without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
We are reintroduced to Liam’s partners at The Blue Room: Hunter and Jenna (Seducing the Billionaire #1), Jake Williams, and Max.
PROPOSITIONING THE PLAYBOY is a spicy story of family and love. The premise is engaging and inviting; the romance is tender and sensual; the characters are energetic, and spirited.
Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one SEDUCING THE BILLIONAIRE
Copy supplied for review
Reviewed by Sandy
Grace stopped a few feet in front of him and pulled her shoulders back, as if she were preparing to fight the board of some big company. “First of all, I’m not asking you to play daddy. I just need you to make a donation.”“A donation?” Oh, he knew what she meant, but he wanted to hear her say the words. It was childish, but if he was going to squirm his way through this conversation, he for damn sure didn’t want to do it alone.
Her eyes narrowed. “Sperm, Liam. You do understand how babies are made?”
He laughed and held up his hands. “I’m sorry. That wasn’t nice. Apparently, the subject brings out my inner twelve-year-old. We’re here”—he waved a hand in the direction of the doorway, indicating the house around them—“of all places, and you want to talk about sex.”
She cleared her throat. “Not sex. Babies.”
“That’s how babies are made, Grace.” He shouldn’t have said that, but the way her face flushed made the tease worth whatever torture would follow. Damned if she wasn’t more beautiful with her cheeks glowing.
As expected, though, all that flush did was fuel those fantasies he shouldn’t be thinking about. The one memory he didn’t have was the one he wanted the most—what she looked like in the throes of an orgasm.
To her credit, Grace didn’t otherwise react. Rather, she held his gaze, her expression all business. “Having a child is the only thing I can’t do alone. By its very nature, it requires a partner. Which is where you come in. It would be a contract between us. I need your sperm, and I’m willing to pay you. And as I mentioned, I’m not asking you to play daddy. In fact, I’d insist on—”
“Why me?” Because if she didn’t stop talking about sperm, he’d go insane. “All things considered, I would have thought I’d be the last person you’d ask.”
Grace dropped her gaze, smoothing a hand across her thigh, as if wiping off invisible crumbs. “Because you’re exactly the type of man I need. You’ve never made it a secret that you have no desire for commitment, which means you wouldn’t want to be a part of my child’s life much less fight me for it.”
JM Stewart writes heartfelt contemporary romance. Whether the heat level is sizzling or sweet, her stories are always deeply emotional. Her heroes are strong but sensitive (no alpha jerks here!), and her heroines are more Cinderella than Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Recently transplanted, she now lives in a small town in Texas along with her husband, two sons and two very spoiled dogs. When not writing, she enjoys reading, cooking and playing computer games. As a sensitive soul with a romantic heart, she believes in angels and hopes everyone finds their happily ever after.
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