Just One Night 📖

Just One Night

Mortimer, Carole
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contemporary fiction romantic suspense past tense third limited POV ~331 pp

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tense angst melodramatic

A dark contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven. Ends with catharsis. Contains notable violence, romance, sexual content.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 85
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 85
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 70%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 90%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count82,666
Page count~331 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited