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Plot Summary of Got a Hold on You
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Love Spell, Aug 2003
ISBN: 0505525496

Finance expert Frankie McGee takes a leave of absence to help save her Uncle Joe's professional wrestling business. However, she learns the business from the inside when the six-foot giantess portraying the amazonian character Tatiana the Tigress leaves for Hollywood just before a critical performance. Frankie takes over the role.

Wrestling superstar Black Jack Hudson is nearing retirement time, but would like to out with one championship belt. However, his wrestling partner, the masked Tatiana, looks great, but to Jack she does not know a wristlock from a wristwatch (paraphrasing Gorilla Monsoon on Ali). Driving him even crazier, Jack finds he is attracted to two women, his partner and Joe's dimes could not drop from her butt niece who demands he renew his contract.

This wrestling romance takes off faster than a flying drop kick from the first moment that Frankie learns about egos and feathers. The story line continues at this frantic pace through airplane spins and the off the rope antics of the cast. Though the characters are never developed outside the ring as much as their wrestling personas come across, fans of frenzied romantic romps will enjoy this off the top rope tale.

Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Time/era of story - Present (2000-2010)
Forbidden/mismatched love? Yes
How mismatched? - one crude, the other cultured.
Love Triangles/Polygons Yes
What kind: - one man-two women
Who: - uncle
Hidden Identity/Secret Motive Yes
Is really... - trying to carry out business objective
Family focus? Yes
Family, loving Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - sports figure
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - business executive
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Setting
United States Yes

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
What % of story is romance related? - 80%
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - significantly more dialog than descript
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