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Book Review By Pamela Piarowski
The Invitation by Jude Deveraux

In "The Invitation", Jackie O'Neill has returned to Eternity, Colorado, to settle down and open her own business. Her exciting life as a daredevil pilot with her late husband, Charley, has finally grown old. But awaiting her in her hometown is William Montgomery, little Billy, the boy she babysat when she was a teen. But Billy is no longer a boy...he's handsome, charming, passionate...and way too much younger than her!
Jude Deveraux combines three delightful novellas, "The Invitation", "Matchmakers", and "A Perfect Arrangement". Each has thrilling adventure, hilarious characters, and passionate romance.


Plot & Themes
Forbidden/mismatched love? Yes
How mismatched?
Seduction/coercion/force Yes
Inner struggle subplot Yes
Struggle with...
If one lover chases another... - he chases after her
Who seduces whom? - man seducing woman

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Sex makes him
Unusual characteristics?

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 40's-50's
Profession/status:
Effect of sexing

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - West

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
What % of story is romance related? - 50%
How explicit is the sex? - vague references only - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex - Boob talk
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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