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Paradise by Judith McNaught

Meredith Bancroft, a retail heiress meets Matt Ferrell, an ambitious steel worker and has a whirlwind night of passion to defy her strict father. Brought together in a hasty marriage, the couple is then broken apart by Meredith's father's interference and both walk away hurt and fearful of emotional closeness.
Several years later, buisness brings them back together as they discover the deception that was played out on both of them in their youth. Gradually a friendship re-emerges despite other romantic relationships that both Meredith and Matt are involved in.
Friendship isn't enough for Matt who realizes he's always loved Meredith and still wants her. Now, a powerful affluent business tycoon himself, Matt gets what he wants and he goes after reclaiming Meredith as his wife.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Forbidden/mismatched love? Yes
How mismatched?
Marriage/Married Yes
Marriage subplot:
If one lover chases another... - they alternate
Matchbreaker Yes
Matchbreaker is - Dad

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Sex makes him

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

Setting
City? Yes
City: - Chicago
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? - 90%
How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex - Weiner talk
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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