| Temperance O'Neil is a strong willed famous activist in New York City. She campaigns to improve conditions for deserted women and children. But Temperance has never lived without money and has never been seduced by a man and because of her inexperience does not really understand the plight of those she feels she is helping. One evening she returns home to discover her widowed mother has remarried. Her husband an old fashioned Scotsman who believes her activism is unnatural. He forbids her to continue and makes her return with him and her mother to Scotland. He feels that once in Scotland Temperance will fall in line and become a more natural female and he will eventually find her a husband in spite of her almost 30 years.
Temperance makes his life miserable. She involves herself in every charity she can and spends a lot of money. Her step-father, Angus McCairn blackmails her into accepting a position as housekeeper to his nephew, James McCairn. He tells her that if she cleans up the house and finds a wife for James he will allow her to return to New York and her activism. She accepts. James McCairn is a man in his mid thirties who has sworn he will never remarry. His first wife had made his life miserable and died on night trying to leave him. She had rode her horse off a cliff. He truly believes that Angus has sent him Temperance in hopes that he will marry her. If he doesn't marry by his 35th birthday he will loose his estate to his twin brother who it is believed has inherited the family curse of gambling. Temperance throws herself into cleaning his home and becomes involved in the affairs of the local villagers and wins there loyalty and James's love. Eventually a woman arrives who will marry James and Temperance finds herself jealous of her. Kenna wants to marry James because of a legend that there is a fortune buried in the house. Temperance is to plan the wedding. When the day of the wedding arrives Kenna is not the one to marry James. James and the villagers have plotted to trick Temperance into marrying James. This book is filled with Temperance learning about herself on this assignment.She comes to realize that she was not as involved with the plight of the less fortunate as she thought. She does return to New York but not before she becomes pregnant with James's son. | ||
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Plot & Themes Time/era of story Love Triangles/Polygons Yes What kind: Inner struggle subplot Yes Struggle with... Main Male Character Profession/status: Age/status: - 20's-30's Sex makes him Main Female Character Age/status: - 20's-30's Profession/status: Effect of sexing Unusual characteristics: Setting Europe Yes European country: - England/UK Misc setting - Fancy Mansion Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death What % of story is romance related? - 40% How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - 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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