Once Upon a Scandal

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Delilah Marvelle. Once Upon a Scandal

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Once Upon a Scandal

MILLS & BOON

PROLOGUE

SCANDAL ONE

SCANDAL TWO

SCANDAL THREE

SCANDAL FOUR

SCANDAL FIVE

SCANDAL SIX

SCANDAL SEVEN

SCANDAL EIGHT

SCANDAL NINE

SCANDAL TEN

SCANDAL ELEVEN

SCANDAL TWELVE

SCANDAL THIRTEEN

SCANDAL FOURTEEN

SCANDAL FIFTEEN

SCANDAL SIXTEEN

SCANDAL SEVENTEEN

SCANDAL EIGHTEEN

MILLS & BOON

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Dear Reader,

I have always wanted to create a grittier version of a fairy tale similar to what the Grimm Brothers explored. I wanted to write a real-life fairy tale that had every possible wrenching emotion in it, but without any of that easy-way-out magic. So I set about creating a very twisted version of Cinderella. Only instead of making the heroine Cinderella, I wanted the hero to be Cinderella. I wanted the prince to be wildly romantic and kind and forever looking for his Princess Charming the way Cinderella had. So I gave him a big heart and, introduced him to a stepmother who never liked him and, in turn, forced him to become a servant of a different sort. I then balanced his hardship by giving him a charming stepsister who absolutely adores him and who sought to protect him at every turn. Instead of a glass slipper, I thought a ruby ring would best unfold my fairy tale.

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He closed the distance between them. “Very what?”

“Improper.”

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