| After a steamboat explosion on which heiress Angelica Carew and New Orleans gambler Renold Harden get too personal for strangers, Angelica awakens from her injuries to find the pair has wed. Not understanding Renold's motivation, Angelica allows herself to fall in love with Renold, who is already smitten with her, after weeks of wary resistance. She eventually finds out that she was married for her dowry, a Harden family plantation lost in a bet, unraveling the novel's conflict. | ||
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Plot & Themes Time/era of story Hidden Identity/Secret Motive Yes Is really... - trying to carry out business objective If one lover chases another... - he chases after her Main Male Character Profession/status: Age/status: - 20's-30's Sex makes him Main Female Character Age/status: - 20's-30's Unusual characteristics: Setting City? Yes City: - New Orleans Farm/Ranch? Yes Farm/Ranch: - farm Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths What % of story is romance related? - 60% How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - Boob talk - Weiner 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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