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Book Review By Clare Leete
A Secret Love by Stephanie Laurens

Since rescuing her large stepfamily from the brink of financial ruin during her come-out season eleven years prior, Lady Alathea Morwellan has been resigned to the fact that she will remain a spinster. Now, just when the family's future appears secure, a suspicious prommisary note signed by her naive father is discovered, and Alathea realises that she must take drastic action.

Enlisting the help of her childhood playmate, Gabriel Cynster, seems her only hope. However, Gabriel and Alathea have not spoken in over a decade, and whenever they are in the same room together, tension flies, and tempers flare. In her desperation, Alathea disguises herself as a widowed countess, and secures Gabriel's aid in exposing a fraudulent company, thus making the prommisary note redundant.

Gabriel finds himself intrigued by the mysterious countess, and vows to learn more about her, intimately. After discovering that she is a virgin, questions erupt, climaxing in the discovery of his estranged and frustrating childhood friend. This is a very sensual fiction, shrouded in mystery and intrigue, and describes explicit sex scenes.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action:
Hidden Identity/Secret Motive Yes
If one lover chases another... - he chases after her
First time for - her

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's

Main Female Character - 20's-30's
Effect of sexing
Unusual characteristics:

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
City? Yes
City: - London
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - 90%
How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - actual description of sex - Boob talk - Vagia talk - 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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