The author of I See London sets her
sights on Washington, D. C., with a sexy new series about three sisters, the
secrets they keep, and a powerful blog with a knack for exposing scandals...
Jackie
Gardner knows all about dirty little secrets. The illegitimate daughter of one
of the most influential senators in Washington, D.C., she grew up surrounded by
the scandals and shadows of politics. Now that she's landed an internship with
a powerful political consulting firm, she's determined to launch her career and
take this city by storm.
William
Andrew Clayton was born for politics. He knows the drill: work hard, play
discreetly, and at all costs, avoid scandal. At twenty-six, his campaign for
the Virginia State Senate is the first step to cementing his future. It's time
for him to settle down, to find the perfect political spouse. He needs a Jackie
Kennedy, not a Marilyn...
When Jackie
meets Will in the bar of the Hay-Adams Hotel, sparks fly. But the last thing
Will needs is to be caught in a compromising position, and an affair with a
political candidate could cost Jackie her career. When what began as one steamy
night, becomes a passion neither one of them can walk way from, they must
decide if what they have is really love, or just another dirty little
secret...
Release Date May 19, 2015
Penguin Group InterMix
Capital Confessions #1
Chanel Cleeton is a new-to-me author and I was really excited to
receive an ARC of Flirting with Scandal from the publisher through NetGalley.
While Flirting with Scandal was
the first book I read by Chanel Cleeton, it won't be my last.
I really enjoyed Flirting
with Scandal. While it took a little bit for the story to get moving, once
it got going, I couldn't put the book down. I absolutely loved how smart both
Jackie and Will are in Flirting with
Scandal. I felt like Jackie's beauty made others not always see how smart
she was, yet Will picked up on it from the very beginning. The chemistry
between Jackie and Will was smoking hot from the moment they first saw
each other at the Hay-Adams Hotel. Will and Jackie seriously couldn't
seem to keep their hands off one another if they were ever alone.
While I loved the chemistry between Will and Jackie, I knew
Jackie keeping secrets about her past would be an issue in the long run. The
age difference between Will and Jackie didn't seem like a big deal much of the
time, though I did feel that Jackie was very immature when it came to
relationships. While I totally understood her lack of relationships thanks to
her mother and her father and her trust issues, my only issue with the story
was Jackie colored everything Will did based on her past.
Of all the characters in Flirting
with Scandal, I felt Jackie grew more as a character than any other. Will
was already pretty mature at the beginning of the book and he was willing to do
anything to make their relationship work. It took Jackie having everything in
her life turned upside down for her to finally find the inner strength she
had all along and fight for what was important.
Flirting
with Scandal was a sexy and funny political romance. I'm looking forward to
reading the rest of the books in the Capital Confessions series.
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