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Plot Summary of Brazen Virtue
"Grace McCabe is a successful author just off a book tour. To take a vacation, she goes to Washington, D.C. to visit her sister Kathleen. She learns that Kathleen is also a phone sex operator. While visiting she meets Detective Ed Jackson, and they are just beginning their relationship when Kathleen is killed.

Ed and his partner Ben are assigned to the case, and after Kathleen's funeral, Grace moves in with Ed. She finds herself falling in love with him, but everytime they get close, something happens in the case. Another woman was killed and another barely survived. When Ed and Grace finally sleep together, Ed asks Grace to marry him, and she agrees to think about it.

Despite Ed's wishes, Grace sets herself up as bait for the killer, and hearing her voice and mistaking it for her dead sister's, he comes back to her. Ed arrives just in time to hear shots. Will he have been too late to save the only woman he has ever loved?"

Rachael High, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Brazen Virtue
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Plot
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action: - chased by/chasing kidnapper/killer
If one lover chases another... - they alternate

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - bulging muscles

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - writer
How sexual is this person? - a few sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - very athletic

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Southeast
City? Yes
City: - Washington D.C.

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: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of sex
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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