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*** Warning: descriptions of violence and blood *** [Paris, France, winter of 1788: Patricia Valmont, a.k.a. "The Black Rose," has infiltrated the Parisian building occupied by Monsignor Jean Baptiste de Colbert, a powerful and corrupt Bishop from Toulon, complicit in the plot to assassinate Robespierre and Marat. Patricia has already thwarted the assassination attempt and eliminated both the hired assassins and some of the other conspirators but is determined to punish and kill all the masterminds involved. In the building, she has already silently eliminated three of the mercenary swiss guards protecting the bishop. Before facing the powerful prelate, Patricia decided to completely eliminate the threat posed by the remaining mercenaries.] Read the First Chapter HERE Read the Second Chapter HERE --- Patricia waited hidden behind the silhouette of a massive armchair in the main hall on the ground floor. Kneeling to avoid detection, she held a dagger in her hand as she

The bed awaited each morning with joy, For we let spring spill on the sheets— Just a tad whenever we woke up. Ours weren't playdates of note, Rather daffodils unencumbered with The expectations of prickless beauty. As the cradle looked in approval, Our happy chuckles gave it purpose, Then we bloomed, unbothered and true. We appear quiet in the vastness without— but our content faces speak volumes. For the bed, the covers, and the air around shelter all core memories in this room of ours.

Her hands moved over her body. It felt foreign to her, somehow. But she had not the luxury to explore this peculiarity further because a sudden urgency clutched her belly. It was a tip-of-the-tongue feeling. And it prickled the back of her mind. It commanded her to remember something, and it commanded her to remember that something quickly because she knew, in the way that one just knows, that her memory lapse was a gravely dangerous thing. May 2nd, 8 AM EST - Chapter 1 comes to life It will be read on the book podcast, The Grove https://open.spotify.com/show/3rsTuF38Mfexvo6ZWQR8lE?si=116c0c69e85545c5 CHAPTER INDEX Book One Chapter 1 - The One That Got Away Chapter 2 - The Male Predator /Not A Vampire Chapter 3 - The Shephard Boy Chapter 4 - Her Hidey-Hole Chapter 5 - One Year Hence Chapter 6 - Coffee, My First Love Chapter 7 - His Prey Drive, Her Pills Chapter 8 - Attractive Nuisance And she was in grave danger. But despite this - or because of it - she could

"Man has forgotten or been ignorant that his faculties are limited. He has failed to mark the line of demarcation, beyond which his knowledge could not extend. Instead of applying his mind to objects cognizable by his senses, he has attempted subjects above the reach of the human mind, and has lost and bewildered himself in the maze of metaphysics. He has not known or not attended to what has so clearly been proved by Locke, that no idea can be received except through the medium of sense. He has endeavored to form ideas without attending to this principle, and, as might be expected, he has run into the greatest of absurdities, the necessary consequence of such imprudence............." FROM "ANACALYPSIS" BY GODFREY HIGGINS