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Book Review By Amy in Wisconsin
A Home of Her Own by Brenda Novak

Lucky Caldwell has returned to her home town , after 6 years, to the house she inherited from her step-father, Morris; to try to find her father.   Mike Hill, Morris's grandson and the person she'd always had a crush on as a kid, and his family have always made it clear she was as no good as her mother and made no bones about the fact they thought as Morris's first family they should have gotten the house she's living in again.

The house of course has no heat, electricity or phone service and a storm has arrived with Lucky. Mike is the only close neighbor so she gets help from him as much as she hates to. She spends the night at his house, gives in to her wants and he becomes personally aware that she was as pure as her mother wasn't. They continue their relationship in secret and Mike gets to know Lucky and realizes she is not at all what his family and the whole town for that matter have believed. A woman has never gotten under his skin as Lucky has and his brother realizes he is in love with her before Mike does. With her virginity gone to the man she has always loved and her feelings for him stronger than ever she realizes she cannot cause him any more scandal and leaves town. He searches for her and even hires a private detective to try to find her with no luck. Three weeks later she finds out she is going to have his baby.



Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Forbidden/mismatched love? Yes
How mismatched?
Children/Pregnancy Yes
Children/Pregnancy: - Get accidently pregnant

Main Male Character
Profession/status:

Main Female Character
Effect of sexing
Unusual characteristics:

Setting
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - 80%
How explicit is the sex? - vague references only - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - impregnation/reproduction
Focus of story - Her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 1-2 sex acts
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