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A Pirate's Love by Johanna Lindsey

As a child Tristan saw his mother raped and killed by Don Miguel De Bastida and has sworn revenge. Bettina Verlaine is being sent to a Carribean island to wed an unknown plantation owner, but her ship is boarded by Tristan's pirates. He captures her and rapes her repeatedly until she becomes pregnant. She tries to escape several times and is captured by Bastida in the end. Tristan rescues her, kills his enemy and marries the woman who somehow believes that rape can lead to a romantic hapy ending if she accepts it.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Seduction/coercion/force Yes
How seduced/forced? - rape
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action:
Captor, in love with Yes
If one lover chases another... - he chases after her
Who seduces whom? - man seducing woman

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Sex makes him
Unusual characteristics?

Main Female Character
Age/status: - a teen
Profession/status:
Effect of sexing
Unusual characteristics:

Setting
Water? Yes
Water: - sail boat
Island? Yes

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to torture
What % of story is romance related? - 50%
How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex - Boob talk - rape/molest (yeech!)
Focus of story - Her
How much dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts
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