Indecision. The devil she knows (her father), or the devil she has just found, and who has ensnared her. The devil she doesn’t know; James Read, will not take ‘no’ for an answer, but she can ignore the other one. She must choose. Choices are what define us and send our lives in some strange directions; some for better, some for worse. She had already made one choice that had brought her to where she was. Now she needed to make another. She would have to meet with him again. By the next morning, after a restless night, Harriet was confused and was not sure what to think or what to believe. She was not even sure what had happened to her, though what she remembered was enough to convince her that her life had been changed, and not for the better. She had also contributed to that by not stopp

