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Plot Summary of A Game of Chance
"Chance Mackenzie believes Sunny Miller is working with her terrorist father, so he arranges a fake plane crash to set her up and get information about him from her. What he doesn't count on is falling in love, but he does.

After learning that Sunny is really hiding from her father, Chance uses her as bait to bring him out. After a gun fight he is killed, and Chance is frantic when Sunny is shot. While in the hospital, he learns she is pregnant with his baby.

In an attempt to win Sunny back over after all the lies he told her, he brings her home to Wyoming to meet his family, who win her over. They get married and eventually have a baby boy."

Rachael High, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of A Game of Chance
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Plot
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Hidden Identity/Secret Motive Yes
Is really... - police/investigator
If one lover chases another... - he chases after her
Children/Pregnancy Yes
Children/Pregnancy: - Get accidently pregnant

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - champion of justice
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - somewhat promiscuious
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - blissful - mature - sensitive
How sensitive is this character? - middling 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: - accused criminal
How sexual is this person? - naive virgin
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - confident - a better lover - blissful
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Setting
Mountains/Cliffs Yes

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
What % of story is romance related? - 90%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Part of a series? Yes
Focus of story - equally on him and her
Consequences of sex - pregnancy
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 10 or more (that's a lot!)
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