I didn't see any typos so shut up about that and write some more for us. This is like watching the Pretender on tv again. It's coming home and seeing old friends and I can SEE the characters and I recognize them. I freaking LOVE your writing. Keep going and going. Hurry.

Magnifico! Forgive my not logging in and forgive me for begging you for more of this. Don't make me take to twitter and complain. Blackmail. I don't care. I want more of your writing. I need to know that Jarod is ok and I do hate when you leave both my favorite characters in peril. Missy P in Africa and Jarod passed out. You haven't answered my questions about acting and medical training. I hope you don't think I was too nosy. I really love your writing and can't believe you aren't writing the Pretender novels...a big mistake for Steve and Craig. Would you write with them if they offered it to you? I know you say you won't "pester them" but if they emailed you would you do it? Or do you hate the direction the novels are taking? Or do you have a grudge against them? Why won't you beg them to let you write the novels? Do it for the fans! You never shared your thoughts with us about the Pretender novels either.  Or had you rather not say? Or are you too busy? I am so curious about you. OUr enigma boxed into an illusion that calls herself Mirage. I do respect you so much and I love your work. More please?

OMG! wowowow! Mirage you gotta write more and like now. You've been shared all over social media and I'm going to email this to a bunch of people. Keep on writing no matter how many books you are writing. Too bad you aren't writing the Pretender novels cos you know these characters better than anyone..I'm sorry you aren't writing with Steven and Craig or instead of Steven and Craig. ;) I'm sooooo sorry. More puhleeeeeze.

Jarod's manic hair...lol..you have a clever and intelligent writing style and a way with words that seriously blows me away. I love this adventure...you are writing 5 different stories at the same time. I don't know how you are able to do that...but it's working for you and it's definitely working for me. Keep them coming. More stories. I love Mirage!

Top notch Mirage! "little old greyhaired women buying guns" lol. I know which network you mean. The old prolifers lol. They are pro-death penalty, pro-gun, pro-war....they can't be prolife so lol you nailed the real life problem! I LOVE that Jarod looks at the refrigetor offended by it for being empty. You really know Jarod well. You know all of these characters well but Jarod and Miss Parker are the hardest for most authors but you write them flawlessly and you  make it seem so easy. It's scary how well you write them! Good work! Give me more!!!!!

LOVE it! Jarod is so determined to help her and then ohhhhhhhh....Mirage I love your writing styles and all the twists. The way you write the characters is so awesome. too bad you're not writing novels

This is my first ever review for fan fic. I was hesitant to read this because I didn't know how you could write all these different stories without them all feeling the same. But you are on top of that...amazingly. I am awestruck and kind of fangirling here. Each story has it's own personality and feel, and Jarod here is...wow! He's the Jarod I know and love. I'm impressed. He's desperate and he's cruel to MP because he is in pain and she has hurt him in the past...you somehow capture the complexities and nuances so that the reader knows why Jarod is behaving the way he behaves. People can be mean but there has to be a logical explanation for me. I think there will be a change in attitude in the coming chapters? I like how Miss Parker is totally unapologetic in her actions. She's explicit about him not getting blood on her sheets and that's the same selfish and childish Miss Parker I know! She either breaks or stands straight. She doesn't bend...very unhealthy but that's her. It's so refreshing to read. I see my characters, hear their voices and when I reach the end of the story or chapter, I feel like I've been transported somewhere else. This time, I expected to look away from my ipad and see Miss Parker's open bedroom door and Jarod lying wounded in the bed. That is...I don't know...it's magic. You have a rare gift. There is gothic and victorian feel in your writing. I just...wow. Wow. Wow. Thank you for sharing your gift with us.

I'll probably re-review this at a less busy time. The wound you gave Jarod is disgusting visually, and will hurt like a SOB but one that isn't fatal. Caliber and trajectory and speed...I don't tell you that it could happen this way. It can. Most authors will have him up and walking but it does seriously hurt and you were wise to let him sleep and---- wow, I see it all the time. Those faces when the gs victim tries to move or get up. It hurts. You said searing pain and that was dead accurate. You had medical training. You know too much to not have had some training, and same with acting. You know too much about gestures and mannerisms, tones and inflections. Fess up Mirage. You are a pretender. This line--- and my gosh, is Jarod mean or what? NO, I know he is in pain and pain magnifies all the bad stuff. Really cold of him "I've often wondered how it is you are able to sleep at night. $2000 dollars huh? Well, I suppose it takes what it takes." WOW!!! That is so mean and totally in character. Remember Carthis? "Once again it's the Centre----" and then that death glare? I thought he might kill her when I watched The Pretender Isle of the Haunted. Scary mean face Jarod. Miss Parker saved his life!! I know!! He was in so much pain. Please post more soon as I am dying to know what happens next. She's got to tell him about Cox. Right? Oh Mirage. Please!

MP and Broots have such a complex relationship and you capture it so nicely. Ooh Ooh! "Jarod's gone feral" The mental image you painted teehehe. I love that. Nice and subtle the way Sydney came in to replace Broots, as if the two men secretly protect her and after the way Raines threatened her with beheading after Carthis that fits. Thank you for killing Raines and Lyle. I think Adama's family would wonder why he was killed and The Triumvirate already has reason to doubt their competence. Wonderful twist to the storyline. So canon and yet you've taken The Pretender and made it your own and ours. I couldn't be more thrilled! :)

"The scene continued to play on the reel of memory" Oh ooh! She was so sure it was Bobby and the shock of it being instead Jarod. Any other person would have flipped. Very scifi-ish. The seamless transitions are lovely. There is an ease of reading...I don't know how do it, but I'm glad you do.

Teehehe. Miss Parker has no air conditioner and is en extremis. Brilliant. She is kind of spoiled but we love her anyway. The pencil trick was fascninating. Somehow you become the characters and I'm here still trying to figure you out. I know in the other review I mentioned that you must have medical training, but I remember reading before about some theater work? You've done some acting? You probably know some things about psychology, as do I. Mirage are you a pretender? lol. :) One of my favorite parts of this is the male operative's internal dialog "his par excellence, yclept 'operative'" Brilliant!

Miss Chop fucking chop'! I love Miss Parker. I love how well you know these characters and how you have developed them so brilliantly. "She lived with a ghost. She lived like a ghost. Death walked with her." I shuddered when I read that. I know you don't like to hear this but you really should be writing the Pretender novels. You haven't contacted the creators? Ever? If I had half your talent, I'd be emailing them with a proposal. I wish you would. I love your writing.