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" Lady Felicity Melville is a practical woman who is on the verge of spinsterhood. In a moment of desperation, she wishes upon a star that a man who is adventurous and exciting will come into her life and marry her, a few seconds later she sees a man jump over her garden wall.
Nigel Cavendish is widely known around town as a scoundrel and ladies man, and when he is caught in a delicate situation with another man's wife, he decides to escape through the back and over a wall. Seeing a girl standing on balcony with her telescope, he asks her for help in escaping. Felicity believes that fate has brought Nigel to her, and at that moment she vows to discover who he is and marry him.
Nigel fears marriage, not wanting to settle down, but as his father thrust responsibility into his lap, he finds himself drawn to Felicity, despite his vow to never marry. As the couple keep running into each other all over town, Nigel finds himself in a compromising situation with Felicity and is forced to marry her.
As the couple wed, Nigel finds himself fighting against the bonds of marriage, vowing to live his life as if he were single, but is thrown when Felicity agrees and says she wants to start living an carefree life herself. Each day Nigel finds himself wanting to stay with Felicity instead of going out, only through communication can the couple work through there problems and settle into a marriage of love and happiness."
Angel Manners, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- Regency era
Marriage/Married
Yes
Marriage subplot:
- forced to marry because they were caught doing it
If one lover chases another...
- she chases after him
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
How sexual is this person?
- somewhat promiscuious
How romantic is this person?
- sly seducer
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- wealthy
How sexual is this person?
- naive virgin
How romantic is this person?
- somewhat romantic
Sex has good effect on her
Yes
Effect of sexing
- confident
- blissful
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- London
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
What % of story is romance related?
- nearly 100%
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- 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?
- 1-2 sex acts
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