So please read them with my best wishes. ~ I heard Mattie before I actually met her. I was at one of those interminable parties. The hour was late. P...ople were getting drunker. And strange and disturbing things were taking place in dark corners. As usual, none of that involved me. I was hanging around the fringes because I hadn’t chosen to take up Holy Orders, YET. Nonetheless, the chances of my solving my chastity problem weren’t looking good. My abstinence was a matter of other people’s. In fact they're too stupid to take orders from somebody smarter than they are. There is no mastermind, except for the one in Hooks' mind ... and now in Mrs. Custer's mind, as well. What a fucking mess!" Don't you take that tone with me, detective," said Lonny Hildebrand stiffly. "You just get your ass out there and find a mastermind. If the chief of fucking police says there's one, then there IS one, as far as I'm concerned, and you'd better fucking find him."Harper looked at his boss like the. Sadly it’s not how I earn my living now, the demand for high quality images that once graced the pages of magazines like Mayfair and Playboy have been replaced by the tidal wave of low quality images that swill around the internet and I am forced to earn a meagre wage by other, less creative, means. I still like to keep my photographic skills finely honed however and it was just over a week ago that I shot some stunning images of Kate for the special feature section of her website. Kate is a. Surprisingly, the food was exceptionally good and I think it was because the proximity to the railroad ribbon of steel made the source of the food supplies instantaneous to the consumers at the end of the food chain. I knew that in places like Southeast Asia, the battlefield at Gettysburg and now, here in the far Pacific Northwest, the secret of swift transport was the key to logistically making lifestyles more palatable and in a harsh world of frontier living, a little comfort went a long.