| Wulfric Bedwyn, a wealthy duke with a glacial personality, agrees to attend a house party with the expectation he will have a quiet and companionable two weeks with frinds. To his chagrin, the house party turns out to be a noisy social affair in honor of the engagement of a young relative of the hostess. To his further chagrin, he is the target of many attempts at flirtation because the young ladies at the house party made a bet among themselves to see who would be the first to engage the chilly duke's attention for an hour. To the surprise of many, Christine, a 29 year old impoverished widow with a flair for finding herself in absurd situations, wins the bet. She also wins a proposition from the duke to be his handsomely paid mistress - an offer which she, naturally, rejects out of hand.
The romance between the duke and Christine is farily closely modelled after the romance between Darcy and Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice. The duke fights his initial attraction to Christine, then eventually proposes marriage in such a disrespectful manner as to make his rejection inevitable. THey meet on several occasions after the house party and Christine comes to know and understand the man behind the duke. In true Pride and Prejudice fashion, Christine realizes in the end how perfectly suited they are for each other despite superficial appearances. T | ||
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Plot & Themes Difficult/unusual lover? Yes How difficult? Main Male Character Profession/status: Age/status: - 20's-30's Main Female Character - 20's-30's Profession/status: Effect of sexing Setting Small town? Yes Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee Misc setting - Fancy Mansion Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death What % of story is romance related? - nearly 100% How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - actual description of sex Weird Victorian/Shakespearean English? Yes Focus of story - equally on him and her How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts |
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