Someone to Believe In deals with gang violence, and two people on opposite sides of the issue. It is intensely emotional, with violence (hinted at murder) near the end as well as the description of violence (gang initiation) as background for the romance, as it is the issue that divides the MMC and the FMC.
She is Bailey O'Neil, aka Street Angel, an anti-gang specialist who wanted funding to get kids out of gangs. He is Clayton Wainwright, US Senator ( a shoo-in for VP in the next election) who believe that gangs are a law enforcement problem, not a social welfare problem. More than ten years ago, he put her behind bars (as district attorney) for harboring a gang member accused of murder. When the anti-crime bill needed the state to allocate funds, and the party chairman told him to bury the hatchet with her, they found they are attracted to each other, and slowly the two came to fall in love, and compromise their position... somewhat. But can they keep their romance a secret against paparazzi? And when Street Angel finally got one of the girls out of the gang, but her homies came gunning for Street Angel for "taking her away", how far will he go to protect her, even if it was to betray her trust and her mission? Can their love survive such challenges and betrayal?
INTENSELY emotional near the end, it was truly the darkest hour when she realized the depth of his betrayal of all that she believed in, and he knew all that and did it anyway, in order to keep her safe. It was what a romance should have... a deeply dividing darkest hour that you wonder if they will ever get back together... However, the grand gesture was rather weak compared to the depth of the darkest hour.
Category: contemporary
Primary Plot: man and woman on different sides of gang mitigation found they were attracted to each other, but can they live with each other's "betrayal"?
Tropes: different worlds, opposites, attract, woman in peril
Overall Rating: 4/5
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