title: Method and Madness: The Making of a Story: A Guide to Writing Fiction
author:  Alice LaPlante 
description: Alice LaPlante teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and Stanford University, where she is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her fiction has been published in the Southwest Review, Epoch, and Stanford Magazine, and her nonfiction has been published in Discover, BusinessWeek, and the San Jose Mercury News, among other publications. She lives in Palo Alto, California.
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  AN IMPROPER PROPOSAL
  
  Distinguished Rogues, Book 6
  
  by
  
  Heather Boyd
  
  LLD Press
  
  [www.heather-boyd.com](http://www.heather-boyd.com)
  
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  COPYRIGHT
  
  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not
  intended by the author.
  
  Copyright © 2015 by Heather Boyd
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or
  mechanical means—except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical
  articles or reviews—without written permission.
  
  LLD Press
  
  First Edition: June 2015
  
  ISBN: 978-0-992486389
  
  Edited by: Kelli Collins
  
  Cover Design by Heather Boyd
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In life there are choices…
  
  Spinster Iris Hedley was once the darling of the ton until her father lost his
  fortune through an illness of the mind. Reduced to living as a penniless guest
  whi