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Selected praise for
New York Times and USA TODAY
bestselling author
Brenda Jackson

“Brenda Jackson writes romance
that sizzles and characters you fall in love with.”

—New York Times and USA TODAY
bestselling author Lori Foster

“Jackson’s trademark ability to weave multiple
characters and side stories together makes
shocking truths all the more exciting.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Jackson’s characters are wonderful, strong,
colorful and hot enough to burn the pages.”

—RT Book Reviews on Westmoreland’s Way

“The kind of sizzling, heart-tugging story
Brenda Jackson is famous for.”

—RT Book Reviews on
Spencer’s Forbidden Passion

“This is entertainment at its best.”

—RT Book Reviews on Star of His Heart

Letter to Reader

Dear Reader,

This is it! The twentieth book in The Westmorelands series and the fifth book about those Denver Westmorelands. For those two reasons alone I knew this book was special from the moment I began writing it.

I always thought of Jason Westmoreland as the quiet storm. Of the three, Derringer, Zane and Jason, Jason was the one who didn’t have a lot to say and wouldn’t have a lot to say…until it was his time to take center stage. Now, it is his time.

Jason is a man who thinks he knows what he wants, but when he meets Bella Bostwick he isn’t so sure anymore. He thinks he would be happy to make Bella an offer, the ultimate proposal, one he thinks she can’t refuse. What he doesn’t count on is awakening to passion the likes of which he’s never had before. And it doesn’t take long for him to figure out that Bella is the one woman whose heart he needs to conquer.

I present you with another Westmoreland man who has to come up with a plan to get the woman he wants. That one woman who will make his life complete. It’s going to be up to him to prove to Bella that together they can have a forever kind of love.

Happy reading!

Brenda Jackson

BRENDA JACKSON

THE PROPOSAL

Dedication

To Gerald Jackson, Sr. My one and only.

To all my readers who enjoy reading about the Westmorelands,
this book is especially for you!

To my Heavenly Father. How Great Thou Art.

Epigraph

He hath made everything beautiful in his time.

—Ecclesiastes 3:11 KJV

Selected books by Brenda Jackson

Desire

*Delaney’s Desert Sheikh #1473

*A Little Dare #1533

*Thorn’s Challenge #1552

*Stone Cold Surrender #1601

*Riding the Storm #1625

*Jared’s Counterfeit Fiancée #1654

*The Chase Is On #1690

*The Durango Affair #1727

*Ian’s Ultimate Gamble #1756

*Seduction, Westmoreland Style #1778

*Spencer’s Forbidden Passion #1838

*Taming Clint Westmoreland #1850

*Cole’s Red-Hot Pursuit #1874

*Quade’s Babies #1911

*Tall, Dark…Westmoreland! #1928

*Westmoreland’s Way #1975

*Hot Westmoreland Nights #2000

*What a Westmoreland Wants #2035

*A Wife for a Westmoreland #2077

*The Proposal #2089

Kimani Arabesque

†Whispered Promises

†Eternally Yours

†One Special Moment

†Fire and Desire

†Secret Love

†True Love

†Surrender

†Sensual Confessions

†Inseparable

Kimani Romance

**Solid Soul #1

**Night Heat #9

**Beyond Temptation #25

**Risky Pleasures #37

**Irresistible Forces #89

**Intimate Seduction #145

**Hidden Pleasures #189

BRENDA JACKSON