" Extremely pleased. Unless I'm badly mistaken, this book will be my best effort to date. I'm hoping for really big things with this one. My editor re...ferred to it as a 'breakthough' book. I've always felt that I've been something of a success as a writer, but I've never had a book that was a run away best seller. This could be that for me." I'm happy for you. I really hope it turns out to be all that you're wishing for." Yes. Thank you. Which, of course, brings us back to the reason I asked. I have a rope — and a cane just like Caroline's." Is there anything I should bring?" Just your lovely buttocks." And you want me to be like that blonde girl, right?" Am I asking too much, being incredibly weird?" If we're talking Weird, take a look at my life, why-don't-you."Then a silence between the two friends, broken when Natalie asks:"Do you have one of those strap-on-thingies." I have Mark here with me now." You call your strap-on Mark?" Don't be obtuse, Nat. Mark is a fellah?" What's he. A soft, hypnotic voice was heard, "We noticed that your companion was not 'taken' with us as most of the men, and some women were. We would like to 'talk' with him. We will make it worth his while."Roc looked up at Mary for guidance. She could not decipher the look on his face. He was looking at her with puppy-dog eyes and it really pissed her off! "Don't look to me for answers, Private. You're on liberty, soldier, do what you want. I gotta drain my bladder." Mary walked off to visit the. Somehow, I thought they would take a dim view of spells, providing they accepted that explanation. And I was responsible for a man's death, after all. I felt guilty as hell about it. I also had no idea how he had gotten there. Just one minute I was alone, the next there he was. It had to be magic.Three days later I was walking through the downtown business district. I stopped and looked at a shop that I swear I had never seen before. I had been up and down this street hundreds of times in my.