Lizabeth Kane

Lizabeth is the novel's central character and protagonist, a character that some might describe as a "typical" female heroine for a romance novel such as this - attractive, romantically wounded, independent minded but full of longing for her ideal man to come into her life and make her feel loved. That longing is clearly grounded in her past - specifically, in her pampered but lonely childhood as the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, and in her troubled marriage with her husband Paul (see below). The resolution of the novel, in which Lizabeth's longing is finally fulfilled, is therefore as much a healing of her past as it is a happy movement into a previously bleak future.

It's interesting to note how professional fulfillment echoes Lizabeth's personal fulfillment. In the same way as Matt Hallahan (see below) meets her sexual and emotional needs, so does he fulfill her...