It was settled when he secured Knightly for her second novel based upon the Tzarina Catherine the Great. While she was writing her second, she was wri...ing notes for her third book. Love for Life was a thinly veiled story about Tim and Emma's life and their adventures. She even put the Barbie twins in but excluded Lena's murder and Lisa's religious conversion. All else remained the same.This did not mean that Tim and Emma cut back on their love life. In fact they increased their activities in. Dad gave Mike that dad look, then left. Mike said, I was going to take a swim, do you want to come. I said, I didn't bring my swimsuit. With a grin Mike said, we're in the country. You can swim without it. Mike handed me a towel and said, just follow the path down to the lake. I was nervous. I've never been naked in front of anyone before. After a couple of minutes I figured what the hell. I stripped down, wrapped the towel around me and went outside. The whole area was covered with trees. I. I told you how it was going to be... willingly, or unwillingly... but fuck all the way! It's going to happen, little girl, but how is still your choice!"Toni stiffened as if she'd been submerged in ice-water the shocking fact that there was no escape finally reaching her! This was her uncle and he was going to rape her! Her lovely little mouth fell loosely open and her striking eyes widened in utter disbelief again his blatant use of the evil word knifing into her as she at last began to sense. How self-centered can I get? When I’m on a case, I work it day and night until it’s cracked. I guess it’s my own manifestation of OCD behavior. I hadn’t even considered that the case might not have Cinnamon as engrossed as I was.“Oh, my gosh, Cinnamon!” I said. “Of course you can have a day off. I shouldn’t have kept you at the hotel last night. I just completely got wound up in what we were doing and forgot you have a life, too.”“I’m a big girl, Deb. I could have spoken up,” she answered. “But.