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Plot Summary of The Gilded Lion
"Celinaire's scheming guardian seeks to force her to marry the vile Phineas Smoot. Taking her fate into her own hands she marries Leopold Wilde, a cripple who has advertized for a wife in the newspaper. But Leopold Wilde is really an alias for Kristoffe Wilde, who has been forced to assume the character of "Phineas Smoot" to protect himself from the French after he finished his spying career in the Napoleonic wars.

Falling in love with his wife and straining at being forced to live as a paraplegic, he resurrects Kristoffe to escort Leopold's wife in search of her shipwrecked uncle in Cornwall. Celinaire struggles to stay loyal to her husband while being attracted to her dashing "cousin". And now that Kristoffe has come out of hiding, the French threaten his life again."

Inger, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of The Gilded Lion
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Plot
Time/era of story - Regency era
Difficult/unusual lover? Yes
How difficult? - disabled/ugly
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action: - chased by/chasing kidnapper/killer

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - spy
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - somewhat promiscuious
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - homemaker
How sexual is this person? - naive virgin
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
effect of sexing - guilty
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - obedient - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
What % of story is romance related? - 70%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - licking - actual description of sex - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of male nudity (the big P)
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts
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