”“Nice day out, isn’t it?” a deep voice said behind me. Really? Lucy laughed in my mind, His leading line is the weather?“It is,” Lucy smi...ed over my shoulder at Tom, “why don’t you come sit down and enjoy it with us?”Lucy scooted over and patted the seat next to her and across from me. Tom sat down, smiling confidently at Lucy and God before his gaze fell on me. “Hey,” he said as his eyes filled with recognition, “you’re Rachel, right?”“I am…” I said with a smile, completely lost for how to. She beckoned, with her purple nails and he went in, stunned. He stoppedjust past the door. She nudged him further, and with a noise, the doorshut behind them.And Randolf Grey stood paralyzed and stunned beyond comprehension.This, Randy realized, was why the hallway was so short, because theroom, or rooms, were enormous. It was the entire top story of themansion. And it was clinically insane!The space of the area was at least one hundred feet wide by at leastthree hundred long. The ceiling,. Nothing came out. My stomach lurched. Sam kissed me on the cheek, smiled and went up to bed.Even after I closed my mouth it took me a minute to realize I was as hard as I’d ever been, harder even than the first time I looked down the front of Marisol Wang’s dress.The next day, chores done, Sam and I had been on the couches reading most of the afternoon until she tossed her book down and headed for the kitchen.“Buddy, come here and give me a hand, will you?”“What is it?”“Lemonade. Get in here.”I. Oh, and there’s a library that’s huge. Infinitely huge, it seems. It’s got everything.That’s it. That’s the story. Except that once I started it I couldn’t stop reading. It’s wonderful because you can’t believe these characters exist, but they’re as real as anybody even if they’re quite strange. Doesn’t matter. Link hooked me from the first page. Before I knew it I cared about them and what might happen to them. Such odd stuff. A favorite character on the TV show has been killed unexpectedly..