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"Delilah "Lilah" Remy can't help but fall for the smooth talking, terrible flirt Jocelyn "Joss" San Pietro upon their very first meeting. After a tender kiss and leisure stroll, Lilah is ready to fall for the handsome young business man. But, in a dramatic turn it is revealed the Joss' grandmother was of a mixed race and a slave, making the English-born Joss property of Lilah's cold hearted great-aunt. He great-aunt auctions off a battered and severely beaten Joss in front of Lilah's very own eyes and in a plead to end his beatings, she purchases him through the coaxing of her new fiancee, Kevin (that she hastily accepts in her heartbreak of Joss' true origins) for her father.
Lilah leaves her aunts colonial home, in order to return home to Barbados with Joss, a slave, and her fiancee aboard a travel ship. After a severe storm the ship goes down and Lilah is stranded on a deserted island with Joss, whom she denies having feelings for. It doesn't take long for her to give into the true lusty feelings she has for Joss after witnessing his bare body running about the island and soon they become torrid lovers. They promise that once they are freed from the island neither will reveal the fact the Joss is truly a slave. The arrival of pirates has Joss joining their team under duress and Lilah chopping of her hair and pretending to be his filthy, mentally ill nephew. The pirate ship is captured, and in order to protect Joss from being hung as a pirate, Lilah reveals that he is her property, which causes a rift in their romance. Lilah arrives home and after a few days of separation she explains the truth to Joss. They continue their secret romance at late night hours, until her fiancee discovers them and her father is enraged at the truth."
MissAlyssa, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- American "colonial" era
Forbidden/mismatched love?
Yes
How mismatched?
- loving slave
Action/suspense subplot?
Yes
Action:
- stranded in isolated area
If one lover chases another...
- they alternate
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- slave
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
How sexual is this person?
- several sexual encounters
How romantic is this person?
- sly seducer
Sex makes him
- guilty
Sex has good effect on him
Yes
Sex makes him
- confident
- blissful
- sensitive
Sex has bad effect on him
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- wealthy
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
How romantic is this person?
- somewhat romantic
Sex has good effect on her
Yes
Effect of sexing
- confident
- obedient
- a better lover
- blissful
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- The Caribbean
Water?
Yes
Water:
- lost at sea
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related?
- 90%
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- licking
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of sex
- descript. of female anatomy (the big B's)
- descript. of female anatomy (the big V)
- descript. of male nudity (the big P)
- spanking that woman dislikes
Focus of story
- Her
Consequences of sex
- abortion
How much dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing?
- 3-4 sex acts
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