| Kate Fansler is a literature professor, lives with her husband Reed, a lawyer, in a city apartment, and is content with her life. She has three brothers whose lifestyles are quite different from her own.
She is therefore slightly surprised when her oldest brother asks her to meet him at his club. He, in fact, wants her to give a blood sample for DNA testing. A man has shown up, claiming to be Kate's father. The DNA test reveals that this man is indeed her father. He had an affair with her mother, now dead, over 50 years ago. So this may be why she is so unlike her brothers, both in looks, and in personality. The man, Jay, meets Kate, and explains a bit of why he is now showing up. He has been in a Witness Protection Program because he testified against a murderer, someone he knew, and someone with whom he himself had done some criminal activity, namely art theft. Helping with the theft of a piece of art was in a way a means of trying to deal with his lost love, Kate's mother. She wouldn't run away with him, but chose to stay with her husband and sons. Jay is quite a romantic- looking up Kate after all these years was another of his love/revenge actions. Now Jay is putting both Kate and himself in danger. The man is out of prison and wants to kill him. Kate and Reed hide Jay for a while, then are able to get him to a police station. The man who is after him finds him and threatens to kill both Kate and her father. There is more of a connection between this man, Charles, and Jay. Charles knew the Fanslers, and he in fact blackmailed Kate's father (or who she thought was her father). He had threatened to make the affair public. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) Time/era of story: Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book descript. of violence and chases - 10 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 % How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10 % Crime Thriller Yes Crime plotlets: General Crime (including known murderer) Yes If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted... - hunted by killer/stalker Main Character Gender - Female Profession/status: Age: - 40's-50's Ethnicity/Race Main Adversary Identity: - Male Age: - 60's-90's Motive of antagonist - revenge How sensitive is this character? Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor Intelligence - Average intelligence Setting United States Yes City? Yes Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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