First of all, great ideas on the antagonist place holder. What say you, girls? I kind of like Angelica Huston, myself. Especially as the mother in Ever After.

But now, about me. Yes, that’s me confabbing at the apartment. Is this the sweet life or what? I thought I’d let you know a bit about poor, misunderstood Dee and her honey. Dee has been in charge all her life. She’s the oldest, she’s the one who kidnapped her sisters when she was just sixteen and went into hiding to protect them from her Aunt Rellie(Angelica). She still sees herself, twelve years later, as their sole protector, even though they’re both adults. But while she can’t imagine anything else, she’s really tired. She feels imprisoned, but of course can’t stop, because she loves her sisters so much, and she’s so afraid of Rellie, She’s the only one who really knows how evil her aunt is. So she works in a bank to bring in money to help keep the girls afloat and paints at dawn when nobody can see her. And she does her best to deny her shapeshifting gift, since it’s usually just inconvenient, like when she gets aroused and turns into the guy’s….mother. Yeah. That’s how lucky she is. She’s now the oldest virgin in North America.

So along comes Danny James, who says he’s a researcher for a world famous author, and he’s researching her family. And she wants nothing to do with his leather-jacket-wearing, vintage-motorcycle-riding, travels-the-globe ass. He scares her to her toes. He also makes her hugely envious, because he’s everything she thinks she can never be. So Danny’s job is to convince Dee to take a chance. To take those first steps away from her prison. As for her shapeshifting, he doesn’t believe in it at all. He’s researching a book to debunk the whole idea of paranormal powers. And yeah. He has a few big surprises in store for him, too.

eileen