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Plot Summary of The Perfect Stranger
"    Faith Merridew is a gentlewoman who has been duped by a man into marrying him, only he is already married with five children. She decides to make her way back to her family from France to England, but she is robbed and set upon by criminals along the way, and finds a knight in shining armor in Nicholas Blacklock. Nicholas is an ex-soldier who is camping out on the French Sand Hills when he is literally tackled by Faith, who is trying to escape persuers.
    After Nick saves her, he learns her story and feeling compassion for her, he decides to marry her and save her name. Faith listens to Nick's arguments on why they should marry for convience and agrees, only after she weds him, she decides that should be a couple in truth.
   Nick is apprehensive about her being a true wife, for he is on personal mission, but agrees to allow their marriage to be real till they reach Bilboa, Spain. The two fall deeply in love, but Nick knows it will all end, due to a secret illness he is hiding from Faith. "

Angel Manners, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of The Perfect Stranger
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Plot
Time/era of story - Regency era
Marriage/Married Yes
Marriage subplot: - marriage of convenience spurring real love
Inner struggle subplot Yes
If one lover chases another... - they alternate
Disability or addiction? - physical disability/sickness/injury

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - Prince/Nobleman/King
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - confident - blissful - sensitive
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - bulging muscles

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - wealthy
How sexual is this person? - very picky
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - blissful - mature
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - France
Forest Yes

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - nearly 100%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - touching of anatomy - licking - 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)
Part of a series? Yes
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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