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* PetTheDog: Cade has his moments before his CharacterDevelopment.
** In one chapter, Cade expresses sympathy for a woman who only turned to thievery to support her loved ones.
** When Cade crosses paths with Amaya, he is surprisingly friendly towards her little brother, Quinten.
** In one chapter, Cade expresses sympathy for a woman who only turned to thievery to support her loved ones.
** When Cade crosses paths with Amaya, he is surprisingly friendly towards her little brother, Quinten.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In contrast to the novel where Esmeralda and Quasimodo were complete strangers, their modern equivalents are biologically related to each other through the same mother.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In contrast to the novel where The Esmeralda and Quasimodo were complete strangers, their modern equivalents are now biologically related to each other through the same mother.
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Cade wrestles with this after encountering Amaya for the first time, believing her to be a sinful person engaging in vulgar business that goes against God, even thinking her a witch. However, when he crosses paths with her more and grows friendly with her little brother, his perspective gradually changes.
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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: Cade's main target is Parker. However, when his murder of a strip club client led to Amaya being suspected as the murderer, he killed another stranger to make it look as though there is a serial killer and shift suspicions away from her.
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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: Zig-Zagged. Cade's main target is Parker. However, when his murder of a strip club client led to Amaya being suspected as the murderer, he killed another stranger to make it look as though there is a serial killer and shift suspicions away from her. [[spoiler:He stills succeeds in killing Parker, but with the intention of taking revenge for Amaya's suffering by Parker's hands rather than just administering God's judgment against him.]]
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* AgeGapRomance: A slow burn type between Cade and Amaya, with Cade being in his late 30s and Amaya being in her early 20s
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: For as long as Amaya could remember, her mother was always trying to enter a relationship with different men that, for one reason or another, ends in disaster and subsequently leading to them constantly moving to a new town.
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* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Upon finding out her mother had been hiding as a nun and didn't give any thought to the wellbeing of her children, Amaya snaps and kills her mother in a fit of rage.]]
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* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Upon finding out her mother had been hiding as a nun and didn't give any thought to the wellbeing of her children, let alone come back for them, Amaya snaps and kills her mother in a fit of rage.]]
* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: Cade's main target is Parker. However, when his murder of a strip club client led to Amaya being suspected as the murderer, he killed another stranger to make it look as though there is a serial killer and shift suspicions away from her.
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* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Parker takes his cruelty a step further when he killed Dalia, the only friend Amaya ever had.]]
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* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Parker takes his cruelty a step further when he brutally killed Dalia, the only friend Amaya ever had.]]
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* AmoralAttorney: Florence is a practicing attorney in Festivale. However, she not only antagonizes Amaya every time she crosses paths with her, but she also engages in an affair with Parker [[spoiler:behind her husband's back, resulting in her son.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Florence despises Amaya because Parker has been obsessed with her, yet she herself has been having repeated affairs with him despite having a husband herself.
* {{Lust}}: Parker has an obsessive desire over Amaya despite all the pain he caused her, partly because of her ties to her mother and partly because he wanted to lay claims to her as his wife.
* {{Lust}}: Parker has an obsessive desire over Amaya despite all the pain he caused her, partly because of her ties to her mother and partly because he wanted to lay claims to her as his wife.
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* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:With the funding she acquired from Parker's assets, Amaya establishes a club called Dalia's Dancers as tribute to her friend.]]
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* SinisterSuffocation: Cade's method of killing whoever he believes too sinful to live.
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* SinisterSuffocation: Cade's method of killing whoever he believes too sinful to live.live.
* StalkerWithACrush: Cade, though he tries to deny his attraction to Amaya initially. It hasn't stopped him from following her every chance he can get and watching her from a distance.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Parker takes his cruelty a step further when he killed Dalia, the only friend Amaya ever had.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: Cade, though he tries to deny his attraction to Amaya initially. It hasn't stopped him from following her every chance he can get and watching her from a distance.
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Parker takes his cruelty a step further when he killed Dalia, the only friend Amaya ever had.]]
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* SecretSexWorker: In order to provide for herself and her brother (and unfortunately, pay off Parker to leave them alone), Amaya works in a strip club at night under the stage name "Esmeralda".
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* DisposableSexWorker: In the prologue, a sex worker - later mentioned to be an acquaintance of Dalia's named Candice - is the first victim by Cade's hands via strangulation.
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* CorruptChurch: Cade perceives Festivale's Notre-Dame cathedral as this because of Parker's influence on the town and the church itself.
* DarkShepherd: Cade believed that he is a man sent to carry out God's will and save lost souls from their sins. However, because of his abusive upbringing, he came to believe he must purge the sins of others by any means necessary - including violence.
* DarkShepherd: Cade believed that he is a man sent to carry out God's will and save lost souls from their sins. However, because of his abusive upbringing, he came to believe he must purge the sins of others by any means necessary - including violence.
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* MalMariee: Amaya was forced into marriage with Parker (who had been obsessed with her for some time), which she only went along with to avoid being accused of murdering a former visitor at the strip club she worked in. It doesn't last long.
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** Parker made Amaya's life difficult because he had originally engaged in a relationship with her mother - only to also fool around with Florence as well behind her back, then violated Amaya when she unwittingly discovered his secret, and relentlessly demanded payment from her while trying to force her to marry him. [[spoiler:When Cade finds out how much pain he caused Amaya, he tracked him down, tortured him and killed him to avenge her.]]
** Florence has hated Amaya ever since she came into town with her mother, and she wasn't afraid to insult her whenever she could. [[spoiler:However, when she goes so far as to name Quinten "The King of Fool" solely to mock Amaya and her brother, she finds herself on the receiving end of Amaya's wrath and beaten badly (but not killed), and then blackmailed by Cade when he revealed what dirty secrets about her that he uncovered.]]
** Florence has hated Amaya ever since she came into town with her mother, and she wasn't afraid to insult her whenever she could. [[spoiler:However, when she goes so far as to name Quinten "The King of Fool" solely to mock Amaya and her brother, she finds herself on the receiving end of Amaya's wrath and beaten badly (but not killed), and then blackmailed by Cade when he revealed what dirty secrets about her that he uncovered.]]
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* RapeAsBackstory: When Amaya was only a teen, she was forced into sex raped by Parker to keep her from telling her mother that he had been fooling with other women besides her. Since then, he had been repeatedly pursuing her regardless of the fact she hated him for the pain he caused her.
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* AssholeVictim: Parker and Florence.
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:Cade takes advantage of Florence's situation in the hospital to threaten to expose to the entire town her dirty secrets tying her to Parker if she didn't comply with his demands for her to cease giving Amaya trouble.]]
* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Upon finding out her mother had been hiding as a nun and didn't give any thought to the wellbeing of her children, Amaya snaps and kills her mother in a fit of rage.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:Cade takes advantage of Florence's situation in the hospital to threaten to expose to the entire town her dirty secrets tying her to Parker if she didn't comply with his demands for her to cease giving Amaya trouble.]]
* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Upon finding out her mother had been hiding as a nun and didn't give any thought to the wellbeing of her children, Amaya snaps and kills her mother in a fit of rage.]]
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* SinisterSuffocation: Cade's method of killing whoever he believes too sinful to live.
* SinisterSuffocation: Cade's method of killing whoever he believes too sinful to live.
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* PromotionToParent: After their mother ran off and abandoned them, Amaya took it upon herself to be Quinten's primary carer.
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* PromotionToParent: After their mother ran off and abandoned them, Amaya took it upon herself to be Quinten's primary carer.carer.
* RapeAsBackstory: When Amaya was only a teen, she was forced into sex by Parker to keep her from telling her mother that he had been fooling with other women besides her. Since then, he had been repeatedly pursuing her regardless of the fact she hated him for the pain he caused her.
* RapeAsBackstory: When Amaya was only a teen, she was forced into sex by Parker to keep her from telling her mother that he had been fooling with other women besides her. Since then, he had been repeatedly pursuing her regardless of the fact she hated him for the pain he caused her.
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''Crossed'' is a dark contemporary romance novel written by Creator/EmilyMcIntire in August 2023, based on Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame.
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''Crossed'' is a dark contemporary romance novel written by Creator/EmilyMcIntire in August 2023, based on Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame.
''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Amaya and Quinten's mother abandoned them while Quinten was still a very young child, leaving Amaya to care for him on her own.
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* MayorPain: Parker not only runs Festivale with even the church in his back pocket, but he also uses his position as a mean to extort money out of Amaya.
* ParentalAbandonment: Amaya and Quinten's mother abandoned them while Quinten was still a very young child, leaving Amaya to care for him on herown.own.
* PromotionToParent: After their mother ran off and abandoned them, Amaya took it upon herself to be Quinten's primary carer.
* ParentalAbandonment: Amaya and Quinten's mother abandoned them while Quinten was still a very young child, leaving Amaya to care for him on her
* PromotionToParent: After their mother ran off and abandoned them, Amaya took it upon herself to be Quinten's primary carer.
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->'''''Temptation is a devastating mistress.'''''
''Crossed'' is a dark contemporary romance novel written by Creator/EmilyMcIntire in August 2023, based on Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame.
Father Cade Frederic was called from Paris, France, to step in as the new priest in the historic town of Festivale, Vermont. However, he has a mission he believes God gave him: purge the town of sinners, among the worst being the mayor of the town itself, Parker Errien. Though, he carries a darker side within himself, something that seeks to exact the will of God by any means necessary.
Amaya Paquette lives her life in a relentless struggle. By day, she tries her hardest to take care of her little brother and protect him from those who won't accept him. By night, she dances for pay acquired from those who come to see the mysterious beauty called "Esmeralda". However, she carries deep scars from a past riddled with loneliness and pain afflicted by one person who made her life a living hell.
When Cade encounters Amaya, his beliefs collide with his desires, threatening to let loose his inner demons he tried to keep contained. Thinking she must've cast a spell on him, he resolves to do whatever it takes to make her his.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Amaya and Quinten's mother abandoned them while Quinten was still a very young child, leaving Amaya to care for him on her own.
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->'''''Temptation is a devastating mistress.'''''
''Crossed'' is a dark contemporary romance novel written by Creator/EmilyMcIntire in August 2023, based on Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame.
Father Cade Frederic was called from Paris, France, to step in as the new priest in the historic town of Festivale, Vermont. However, he has a mission he believes God gave him: purge the town of sinners, among the worst being the mayor of the town itself, Parker Errien. Though, he carries a darker side within himself, something that seeks to exact the will of God by any means necessary.
Amaya Paquette lives her life in a relentless struggle. By day, she tries her hardest to take care of her little brother and protect him from those who won't accept him. By night, she dances for pay acquired from those who come to see the mysterious beauty called "Esmeralda". However, she carries deep scars from a past riddled with loneliness and pain afflicted by one person who made her life a living hell.
When Cade encounters Amaya, his beliefs collide with his desires, threatening to let loose his inner demons he tried to keep contained. Thinking she must've cast a spell on him, he resolves to do whatever it takes to make her his.
!!''Crossed'' contains the following examples:
* ParentalAbandonment: Amaya and Quinten's mother abandoned them while Quinten was still a very young child, leaving Amaya to care for him on her own.
