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Hometown sweetheart

by Victoria Pade

Published 2008217 pagesISBN 978-0-3732-4929-9

From passionate strangers...Nelly Pratt's job was to determine whether her elderly client's grandson was fit to be her guardian--that's all. She was not supposed to notice Wyatt Grayson's outrageous good looks. Or give in to the powerful--and forbidden--longing he awakened within her almost from the moment they met....to sweethearts for life!Wyatt hadn't come to Northbridge looking for romance. But how did a man resist temptation when it came in a seductive package like Nelly? The beautiful, sexy social worker was making him rethink his solo act. But was Wyatt ready to leave his past behind and take a chance on love? There was only one way to find out....

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Fiction · Romance

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Who it may suit

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Hometown sweetheartVictoria Pade
Heightened4.2/5

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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA shorter read217 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2008
Primary categoryFictionAlso cataloged under Romance
ISBN-13
978-0-3732-4929-9
Language
English
Edition record
OL23237435M
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A more thoughtful way into this book

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Good to know

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.