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The Wallflower Wager
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2019-08-13
- Rating
- ★ 3.8 · 82 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Wealthy and ruthless Gabriel Duke accepts Penny’s challenge to find loving homes for her procession of rescued animals. Living next door and coping with the chaos, he is gradually softened by the warm, determined spinster, who resolves to save him.
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- Revenge Plot: “Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society—and now he wants to get even.” source
- Forced Proximity: “When her imposing—and attractive—new neighbor demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge.” source
- Grumpy x Sunshine: “for a cold-blooded bastard who wouldn’t know a loving home from a workhouse. Soon he’s covered in cat hair, knee-deep in adorable, and bewitched by a shyly pretty spinster who defies his every attempt to resist.” source
- Strong Heroine: “Penny sets him a challenge. She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving homes.” source
- Romantic Comedy: “How hard can it be to find homes for a few kittens? And a two-legged dog. And a foul-mouthed parrot. And a goat, an otter, a hedgehog . . .” source
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