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"Faith has loved Gray since she was a skinny child, but he is the town's golden boy and her family is nothing but white trash. To make matters worse, her mother is having an affair with his father. When their parents disappear together, Gray shows up to kick the rest her family out of town. It is a night that stays with Faith forever. Years later, however, Faith returns to town. She believes that Gray's father was a victim of foul play, and she wants the find the truth. But first truth she learns is old crushes die hard, and Gray is still the most beautiful man she has ever seen. But can they overcome their bitter past and solve the mystery of their parents' disappearences? And can they deal with a truth of their own love for each other?"
Kathy Love, Resident Scholar
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"Talk about love on the wrong side of the tracks this book has it all. Faith Devlin has loved Gray Rouillard all her young life but, Faith is known as trash. Gray is the all american playboy. Circumstances make them enemies. When Faith comes back to clear her family name from a terrible crime she encounters Gray again an this story takes you on a sexual rollercoaster ride of who done it, and deep raw sexual tension."
pegi singleton, Resident Scholar
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"A poor woman and rich, powerful man, who are having an affair, suddenly disappear, leaving both families without a trace. Twelve years later, the womans daughter reappears, determined to redeem herself in the eyes of the town, but most importantly, in the eyes of the mans son, who she has loved since childhood."
Kim Mills, Resident Scholar
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"Faith Devlin had been forced from her home when she was fourteen by Gray Roulliard, the son of the man that her mother supposedly ran away with. Twelve years later she's back, having risen from the gutter that had been her childhood and turned herself into a successful business woman. Yet no one wants her there, especially Gray, who has taken over the family business since his father's disappearance. Right from the start he tries to force her out of town, but the woman will not budge. At the same time that he tries to convince her to leave, he tries to convince her to have an affair with him, because even after all these years and an eight year age difference between them, he wants her. Faith resists with everything she has, afraid of the past between them and her new mission. On her return, she learned that Gray's father had never returned home, and yet according to her mother, the two of them haven't seen each other since that last night when they were discovered missing. So Faith sets out to find out what could have happened to Gray's father. Gray finds out, and there's hell to pay . . . in the start of a hot affair that sets everyone on edge. With their affair, the man that had killed Gray's father, his lawyer/friend Alex, comes forward intending to kill Faith. So he tries to burn her house down . . . with Faith and Gray inside. Alex is instead killed by Monica, Gray's sister, whom Alex has been using as a sex substitute for her mother. At last they know what had really happened to Gray's father. With that out of the way, and the love that had grown between them, Gray asks Faith to marry him. She couldn't say anything but yes."
Susan Schade, Resident Scholar
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"Faith returns to her home town ten years after she and her family were run out when her mother supposedly ran off with the richest man in town. Gray, the son of the man her mother ran off with is hostile and wants her to leave so she won't upset his sister and mother, both of whom are mentally fragile. Faith knows her mother did not leave with Gray's father and attempts to discover what happened to him. She is harrassed by a murderer and she and Gray, whom she's always loved, eventually become lovers. The murderer eventually tries to kill Faith."
Amanda Cherniske, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Forbidden/mismatched love?
Yes
How mismatched?
- loving someone from historic enemy
Action/suspense subplot?
Yes
Action:
- chased by/chasing kidnapper/killer
If one lover chases another...
- he chases after her
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
How sexual is this person?
- several sexual encounters
- somewhat promiscuious
How romantic is this person?
- somewhat romantic
Sex makes him
- more demanding
Sex has good effect on him
Yes
Sex makes him
- confident
- less bitchy/arrogant
- sensitive
Sex has bad effect on him
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- bulging muscles
- very athletic
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- small businessman
- business executive
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
How romantic is this person?
- very romantic
effect of sexing
- confused
- scared
Sex has bad effect on her
Yes
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
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
- dumb Rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
- hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
- sinister, like an X-Files Gomer Pyle
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
- rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- 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)
Focus of story
- equally on him and her
How much dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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