Late Wife's Daughter

[Fuumayami]

Could there be a story here.
A man lost his wife 2-4 years ago. He is finally able to move on but there's a knock at his door. He opens the door and a young lady is standing there who looks identical to his late wife. She ask for her, but sadly, he tells her what happened. The man remembers his late wife telling him that she gave up her baby for adoption before she ever met him.
They want to keep in touch. The young lady wants to know her mother through her husband. As they spend more time together, they begin to have feelings for each other. Ultimately they fall for each other and have sex.

 

[sirhugs]

a few interesting twists there

 

[Rob_Royale]

I'd say there's a story there but a very predictable one. Unless there's something more plot-wise what will keep a reader reading?

 

[Fuumayami]

I'd say there's a story there but a very predictable one. Unless there's something more plot-wise what will keep a reader reading?

That's true, you made me ponder about what to add. So I got this idea that, instead of a late wife, she's still alive. And the daughter, coming around trying to spend time with her birth mother then builds a relationship with the father which becomes romantic. How about that?

 

[Rob_Royale]

To me it sounds like a story that would end in heartbreak and that's not what people are looking for in their taboo stories. Not my thing at all.

 

[Fuumayami]

To me it sounds like a story that would end in heartbreak and that's not what people are looking for in their taboo stories. Not my thing at all.

Make sense. I'll cross it out

 

[TheArsonist]

I'd say there's a story there but a very predictable one. Unless there's something more plot-wise what will keep a reader reading?

Is that necessarily a big problem for the genre?

But OK. This feels like a (mildly taboo) romance story to me. The ending is given: the characters get together. So the plot is about overcoming whatever forces keep them apart.

This could be something external, let's say some family members who disapprove of the relationship – for example, what if the guy and his wife had a child, who thinks this half-sister is a fortune hunter trying to claim their mother's inheritance? Or it could be something internal; either just the natural hesitancy to get into a pseudo-incestuous relationship, or something more concrete, like a sense of guilt over the wife's death on the husband's part, or a feeling of being unwanted on the daughter's part. (Ideally you have a combination of both external and internal forces.)

Here's one idea:

The wife died in a car crash (less than 2 years ago). We learn that both the husband and their child (an adult daughter) suspect that it was suicide, and blame him for not preventing it, as she seemed depressed in the days before her death. He found a letter from her on the day she died that he thinks is a suicide letter, but he hid it and never read it. Neither of them ever knew about the daughter given up for adoption. We also find out early on that the returning daughter has a secret and is not telling the full truth, but not what it is.

Both of them are torn by guilt and try to resist, but eventually the husband and the adopted daughter give in to their attraction and begin a relationship. However, then her secret is discovered: she contacted her mother a short time before she died. They met up, but it didn't go well (the mother wasn't ready to reveal her existence to her husband and other daughter), and they had a fight, where the daughter, distraught, threatened to "out" her and ruin her family. This is why the wife was acting so weird in the days before she died. The husband lets slip that he thinks her death was a suicide, and it now looks like the daughter is "to blame." This drives them apart.

After some wallowing, the husband finally reads the "suicide letter," only to discover that it is no such thing, but a letter to apologize and try to mend things with the daughter, and showing that she was about to reveal the truth to the husband and other daughter, hoping they could be a family. Tragically, she died in an accident before she could follow through. In the end the couple reunite and reconcile, and the other daughter accepts their relationship.