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"Warmly ensconced and safe from harm in her mother's ancestral English Home, Claudine Tourville discovers a new kind a danger. She is torn between the love of two brothers. David, steady, scholarly, the perfect husband, if not the lover of her dreams, and Jonathan, so passionate, so willing to dare, far from the perfect husband, but as her first and foremost love, unsurpassed. Theirs is an amorous triangle that will burn bright through the years, till a moment on a rocky beach when one of the two men Claudine adores falls victim to a power beyond destiny. "
Amy Beth, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of story
- Victorian england
Love Triangles/Polygons
Yes
What kind:
- one women--two brothers
If one lover chases another...
- they alternate
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- spy
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?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- a teen
How sexual is this person?
- a few sexual encounters
How romantic is this person?
- very romantic
effect of sexing
- confused
- guilty
Sex has bad effect on her
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Part of a series?
Yes
Focus of story
- Her
Consequences of sex
- pregnancy
How much dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
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