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Plot Summary of Bare Essentials
"Just when Skye thinks that her newspaper is about to go toes up, her soon to be ex-husband and gorgeous hunk Logan comes to her rescue. Agreeing to bail out her newspaper as long as she spends one week with him enjoying the honeymoon they never had, Skye and Logan head for their private winery, ready to discover the REAL bare essentials."
Meredith Griffin, Resident Scholar

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Plot
Seduction/coercion/force Yes
How seduced/forced? - threat of economic ruinment
Searching/Rekindling love? Yes
Lost Lover: - rekindling love after long time
If one lover chases another... - he chases after her
Children/Pregnancy Yes
Who seduces whom? - man seducing woman
Family focus? Yes
Family, loving Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - laborer/blue collar
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
Sex makes him - confused - wild
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - confident - less bitchy/arrogant - blissful - mature - sensitive
Sex has bad effect on him Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - journalist
Eccentric/Mental: Yes
Eccentric: - deluded - emotionally unstable
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 - confident - less bitchy/arrogant - blissful - mature
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Midwest

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 - 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)
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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