| Sheriff Nathan Tate has loved his wife Marge Tate for half his lifetime. For some inexplicable reason, Marge no longer seems interested in Nate, a fact that drives him to consider the unthinkable. Is Marge having an affair? Has she fallen out of love with him? Meanwhile, Marge is harboring a secret that has been simmering for over twenty years. When a 22 year old man knocks at her door and announces that he is her long lost son that she gave up for adoption, Marge nearly loses it.
Although she is overjoyed to be reunited with her firstborn child, she dreads having to tell her husband Nate the truth. 23 years earlier Marge Tate was preganant with Nate's child. Nate was in Vietnam and had been reported as killed in action. Due to the stigma at the time with regards to unwed mothers, Marge chose to give her son up for adoption. When Nate eventually came back to the States and married Marge, she never had the heart to tell him that she gave up their child for adoption. When Nate comes face to face with his grown son, Sean Hardin, he is shocked to the core. How could Marge have lied to him for all these years? How can he ever forgive her. As Marge struggles to make her husband understand her past choices she fears that she has lost the love of her life. | ||
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Plot & Themes Time/era of story If one lover chases another... - they alternate Children/Pregnancy Yes Children/Pregnancy: - "by the way, 10 years ago you had a child" Main Male Character Profession/status: Age/status: - 40's-50's Sex makes him Main Female Character Age/status: - 40's-50's Effect of sexing Setting United States Yes The US: - Midwest Small town? Yes Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death What % of story is romance related? - 90% How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex - Boob talk Focus of story - equally on him and her How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog How much sexing? - 1-2 sex acts |
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