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Book Review By Michele Crossgrove
Her Secret Guardian by Sally Tyler Hayes

    Part of an international relief agency, Dr. Grace Evans ministers to the sick and wounded in dangerous parts of the world. Obsessed with saving others, she seems to have no regard for her own well-being. Lucky for her, she has her own guardian angel. A mysterious man has appeared to her many times in many places, warning her to leave and spiriting her safely away the moment before death closes in. One night before he dissapears, he brushes his lips to hers. Then shockingly, Grace's saviour fails her, and she is violently taken captive in a Central American country....
    Sean Patrick Douglass is a battle-hardened warrior, but just a man. A man as obsessed with saving Grace's life as she is with risking it. He raids the rebel stronghold, rescuing Grace and taking her to a hidden cave where they must wait out a raging hurricane before they can escape the country of San Reino.
    Hidden away together, Grace is mesmerized by this man. So powerful and capable. He risks his life for her, but will only reluctantly tell her his name! As her attraction to Sean grows, so does the feeling she might have finally found something worth living for.
    The violence that accompanies their escape from the rebels brings back horrible memories to Grace of the day her beloved family was killed by a terrorist bomb. Safely back in the U.S. with Sean, she is the focus of countless news stories replaying her history, and the famous photograph of her as a young girl being carried away from the bomb site by a young marine whose involvement in the incident years ago was and is unknown to Grace.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action:
Struggle with...

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 40's-50's
Sex makes him
Unusual characteristics?

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Effect of sexing

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
The Americas (not US): Yes
The Americas: - Central

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
What % of story is romance related? - 60%
How explicit is the sex? - actual description of sex
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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