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"Cordelia Grant is sent to school in Switzerland where she meets some girls with whom she becomes best friends. They are told about an old legend about meeting the man you were going to marry by waiting in the woods during the time of the Hunter's Moon. The girls try it and see a man in the woods who expresses interest in Cordelia. When he suddenly stops calling on her, she moves on with her life and becomes a schoolmistress in her aunt's school for girls. Jason Verringer, a land baron with a scandalous reputation, starts pursuing Cordelia. She puts him off, concerned about his reputation as a murderer and womanizer."
Laura J. Miller, Resident Scholar
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"Cordelia Grant is a young woman who lives through very strange event. Back in Switzerland, in an exclusive girl school, Cordelia and her friends find out about and old legend. If a young women waits in the wood by the time of the Hunter's Moon, she can see her future husband. They sit and talk in the woods, and suddenly a man shows up and talks with them. After that, Cordelia returns to England and finds a job as a headmistress in Colby Abbey Academy. There she meets Sir Jason Verringer, an arrogant and dashing landowner, who inmediately likes Cordelia and starts a flirty chase to get her love. But Cordelia can't forget the stranger in the woods, and as time passes, she starts to think that she imagined him. She has to find out if the man in the woods is actually real, while strange things happen in the Academy. One of the students runs away with a stranger that she met on the woods... And Cordelia has a feeling that it has to do with the stranger of the time of The Hunter's Moon."
Paulina, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of story
- 19th century
Seduction/coercion/force
Yes
Action/suspense subplot?
Yes
Who:
- aunt
Is really...
- a criminal (possibly)
If one lover chases another...
- he chases after her
Who seduces whom?
- man seducing woman
Family focus?
Yes
Family, loving
Yes
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
- wealthy
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
- "zip'm down, zip'm up. Next!"
How romantic is this person?
- sly seducer
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- bulging muscles
- average physique
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- teacher
How sexual is this person?
- naive virgin
How romantic is this person?
- somewhat romantic
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
If she's not white she must be...
- black
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- Switzerland
- Eastern Europe
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Mountains:
- falling off
Forest
Yes
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- moderately detailed references to deaths
What % of story is romance related?
- 50%
Focus of story
- Her
How much dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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