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 I read a sample of Seven Years To Sin on my Kindle, but it just didn't grab me the way the Crossfire novels did, so I decided against buying it. I've never been much of a person for historical fiction -- I mostly read contemporary fiction. I do however enjoy some fantasy and paranormal genre stuff (Harry Potter, Twilight) so I'm considering checking out some of Sylvia's stuff in those genres.  Sylvia also has a new contemporary series coming out this year, with novels due for release in August and November. I'm definitely going to check out the first one, and if I love it (as I'm sure I probably will) I'll check out the second.

 After this is over, there's no way Gideon and Corrine can remain friends.  For one thing, if Corrine is ever going to finally move beyond her 10-year-long obsession, she's got to literally as well as figuratively leave Gideon behind. She'll never get over him if she's exposed to physical nearness of him, the sight of him from a distance in New York, even the sound of his voice over the phone. He's like a an addictive drug to her, and she's got to abstain forever moving forward as her only hope of recovery from a broken heart and shattered dreams.  More importantly, even if Gideon finds it in his heart to forgive Corrine for all the pain she caused, he'll never forget what she did. A real friend would have been happy he'd found love with Eva and bowed out gracefully (or even never come back to begin with). Corrine would have wished for him his "happily ever after." Instead, Corrine tried to destroy Eva's love for him in order to get Eva out of the way forever so Corrine could (try) to have Gideon all to her desperately selfish self.  Not that Corrine had any way of knowing it, but Eva bears horrific mental and emotional scars inside. As a result, Eva is messed up -- through the miracle of years of good therapy, Eva has become at least capable of being able to love. Still, Eva has serious issues (and on some level always will). When she fell in love with Gideon and vice versa all the pain inside both activated as well and both of them struggled with everything from their old nightmares being triggered back into frequency to their terrors of losing people turned raging at times.  All Corrine saw was that Eva is jealous and insecure. She deliberately manipulated both. The result could have been far worse than Eva simply pulling her final runner on Gideon. Cary himself feared the relationship could have turned into the thing that messed Eva up permanently. It'll be a miracle if Gideon, once he finally comes to fully understand that, could ever forgive Corrine. He'd be a fool to ever trust Corrine around Eva again.Â

 Just this week on Facebook, Sylvia explained her publisher wants to make sure there's no repeat of the fan disappointment that happened when Reflected came out -- the immediate overwhelming demand far exceeded the number of copies printed, so some fans weren't able to buy books the day Reflected came out. They sold out too fast.  I'm disappointed too, but I'm glad Penguin Books is doing this right -- making sure there are enough books for the bookstores, the huge mail order companies (like Amazon). And making sure the pre-release logistics are all handled right, the way they should for an author who is a number one New York Times best-selling author. It's a lot more complicated to release a book when hundreds of thousands of copies are being made in the first run than it is to release a book when only tens of thousands of copies are being printed on the first run.  My advice: bug Penguin Books, but leave Sylvia out of it. She has zero control over the release date. No author has control over release date, no matter how big the author is. Even with books like Harry Potter, it is the publishing house that makes all those decisions. The author's part of the process ends when he or she turns in the finished manuscript. The publishing company then has work to do. The bigger the author, the more complicated the work the publishing company needs to do. This time, they want to get Entwined's release done right.

Excellent point, KiMa, about Sylvia saying "Easter morning?" in recognition that while today happens to be Easter Sunday in the United States, she's got fans all over the world, and not every national calendar would note today as "Easter." Â Plus it's being culturally sensitive (and politically correct) to note not everyone in her legion of fans observes Easter. Passover began at sunset Friday and lasted through sunset last evening. Meanwhile, for other major world religions, this past weekend had been an ordinary one not marked by any significant religious holidays. Â So it was her way of saying to each fan "do you celebrate Easter? If so, happy Easter. And if not, well that's more than OK too. Happy Sunday."

 My guess is the today's snippet is the middle of the night somewhere in the story arc between Chapter One (where they reunite in the secrecy of her apartment) and Chapter Two (him waking up in her bed in the morning, the two of them so relieved now they're joking, not desperately holding one another.)  We've seen past instances where one or the other (or sometimes both) have woken up in the wee hours during the times they actually slept together (literally slept alongside one another before Gideon put a halt to it out of fear he might attack Eva again during one of his violent nightmares. Even with the medication, he wouldn't risk it. Since that point, Eva has slept in "her" room when she stayed over at Gideon's. In North Carolina, they made love in the beautiful bed in the master bedroom, but they went to sleep separately.  So it's interesting Gideon felt brave enough the night they reunited to sleep in Eva's bed all night. Especially because he might not have had with him at the time the sleep medication Dr. Petersen prescribed. I suppose it's possible he left some in Eva's bathroom. I doubt he would have grabbed his own bottle when he left his place in order to sneak into her place to talk. He went to Eva's looking for confirmation as to whether his worst nightmare was true -- the knowledge of what he'd done would cause her to turn away from him forever. He went there expecting it was possible he and Eva would talk for the last time.  Interesting too that he didn't make love to almost all night long like the night three weeks earlier when he snuck in to comfort her the week he'd begun to deliberately hurt her as part of his cover plan to hide his motive for killing Nathan. After two straight days of Corrine-related angst, Eva had sent him an agonized email. His response was to sneak into her room and spend all night trying to reassure her of his love even while refusing to explain why he was being so hurtful. She begged him to stay until morning, but he slipped away after she fell into exhausted sleep. That part of the story had bothered me, because whether or not he realized it, that night three weeks earlier constituted a "mercy f***"  So here's how I'm envisioning the night they reunited:  First they make sad sweet love, crying in relief as they do. Next, they talk about all the awful that transpired the prior three weeks, now that there's no longer any need for Gideon to hide the truth from Eva herself. Once that part is over and they both have a sense of relief, they have incredibly passionate sex where they almost tear one another to pieces, so starved they'd been for one another for weeks. Then they talk some more, this time to formulate plans about what they're going to do now, more afraid of the police than ever. Together they decide how they're going to conduct their reunited relationship in secret for now. Finally, they fall asleep exhausted. Today's snippet is them half waking up in the middle of the night, snuggling closer to one another, and falling back asleep again. Next morning, they wake up so happy they can joke about him being a Christmas present already unwrapped and without batteries needed. The fact Gideon's got claw marks on him shows there had been some wild monkey sex sometime before the morning.

Entwined's story takes place in the summer, so the "Easter morning ...." is figurative, not literal .... just like the Christmas present (snapshot 2) was figurative, not literal. Â Easter morning is when we got to wake up to today's holiday snippet. Snapshot 2 tied into a peek we have of Eva joking in bed, telling Gideon waking up to him is like waking up to presents on Christmas morning.

Link is here: http://www.sylviaday.com/2013/03/31/easter-sunday-snippet/  In case you can't access the page, here's the text -- very brief:  â€œAngel.† Gideon’s voice and the feel of his hands on me pulled me from sleep. I mumbled a protest as he shifted me onto my side, and then the heat of his body was warming my back. One of his muscular arms wrapped around my waist, tucking me close. Spooned with him, the biceps of his other arm hard beneath my cheek, I slid back into unconsciousness.  At the top, just under the title is "Easter morning with Gideon and Eva…?"

 Something tells me Sylvia has already been working on (Something) In You ... and that news it's gonna be published (maybe even when it will be released) could come around the time the media's in high gear in late May, early June, doing stories about Entwined. This is just a GUESS - I don't have any sort of real inside information!!!! So don't start spreading rumors because of this post!!!  Sylvia has been strongly hinting for some time now that Gideon and Eva's saga won't conclude yet. Plus, I know how PR agencies grab the attention of news organizations. A particularly good way to do it is when PR folks already are paying attention about one thing in particular is to announce "oh by the way -- here's something late breaking to write/talk about too."  So if Sylvia working closely with Penguin Books wanted to announce another book is coming, an excellent way to grab headlines would be to say so while the media already is paying close attention to existing buzz in the days immediately before and/or after Entwined hits the stores.

I know if a clerk at my favorite bookstore told me on June 4, "sorry, already sold out of all our copies" I'd feel like going as postal as Gideon seeing Brett with his lips on Eva's. Feel as desperate as Corrine wanting Gideon so bad I'd hop on a plane. ::: giggling ::::  Seriously though, I think fellow fans so devout they post here have already pre-ordered. Readers of these forums who haven't done so, go do it this week. Pre-ordering not only is the best way to guarantee you'll have Gideon in your hot little hands on June 4 -- it's a huge help to the publisher (here Penguin Books) to know months out how many copies need to be printed. Because many people (I'm one of them) still love the sensual pleasure of holding an actual book in these times when it's just as easy (heck, easier) to download an electronic copy onto an e-reader.  (Not that I'm knocking e-readers: I love my Kindle Fire, which I got more than a year ago!!! I regularly use it to buy books, especially by authors whose books aren't regularly stocked even at huge Barnes & Noble stores. There's an Irish mystery write in particular I adore. Plus, I can buy a book 24/7, so if I hear about one I want to get, bang -- some taps on a screen and that baby is mine. BUT ... I still love the pleasure of holding actual books, especially brand new ones by favorite authors. And the mountain resort town I'm lucky to call home has a great indie bookstore I support. Pre-order, baby, pre-order. It's the only way to go!!)

 Sylvia explained something important on Facebook last week that convinced me never again will her publisher will delay even once (let alone repeatedly) the release date of one of her novels, most especially a Crossfire novel.  According to her, so many readers had rushed to buy copies of Reflected that stores ran out too quickly -- something very upsetting to readers who couldn't get their own copies right away. In fact, in some cases, fans showed up at bookstores after work on release day only to found out all the copies already were gone.  Can you imagine something like that happening to us on June 4? Being told "sorry, we're sold out -- we've put in an order for more, and hopefully we'll get them right away." We'd go insane. Penguin Books wants to make sure that doesn't happen. Thus the push to June 4 (which is now carved in stone, Sylvia has sworn to us.)  No matter how many times Sylvia explains to fan that a book publisher, not an author, sets a release date, she's still getting barraged with demands from people on social media to release Entwined right now!!!!  People, she would if she could!!! And she's been awesome about feeding us appetizers -- snippets, and now snapshots. Last week, we got three tidbits - snapshot 3 on Tuesday, snippet 10 on Thursday, snapshot 4 on Friday. We're gonna get two snapshots per week between now and June. So show the love and quit the whining -- or at least quit whining to Sylvia herself.

Most -- emphasis most -- of the time, Gideon is a master at maintaining a cool mask to the world, a mask he sometimes lowers in private but has always been exceptionally careful to maintain in public settings. This is why early in Bared, he told Eva "I can't be in public right now" as he was struggling to regain his composure and the pair of them were standing in the middle of a restaurant at the time.  Background: The "now" had been him shaking in relief (and underneath still terrified) because Eva had pulled her first "runner" on him mere hours into the official start of their full-fledged boyfriend/girlfriend status. After work they'd ended up at a hotel where he made love with her for the second time they'd known each other. And just like the first time, something happened right afterward that almost destroyed what he had with her. This time, it was because the "hotel room" turned out to be his "f*** pad" -- something Eva figured out on her own while he was in the shower. She ran away and ended up wandering into a nearby restaurant. A very badly rattled Gideon found her there, and to both make things up to her and get them out of public view, he took Eva home to his penthouse for the first time.  So keeping this ^^^^ in mind, imagine the shock that could come if some paparazzi got a photo of Gideon Cross when Gideon's careful public mask had slid off his face. Like him getting really upset in the middle of Times Square because Brett Kline has grabbed a microphone and begun singing the love song he wrote for Eva.  Oh boy. The buzz a photo like that would create.  Hopefully, the long-term ramification would actually work in Gideon and Eva's favor by making the public think he's still furious about what happened weeks ago, when he caught his then-girlfriend in Brett's arms (who became his ex-girlfriend that very night.) This will help bolster the stronger cover story they could use to make the cops back down -- Gideon dumped Eva over Brett, not left her for Corrine the week before Nathan was murdered.

^^^ And I'm not blaming Gideon for deciding to save Eva's life from a homicidal maniac rapist. I mean the whole stupid cover plan plus a couple of serious mistakes Gideon made that made the cops figure out the cover plan was one big lie. He painted himself into a corner where Brett thinks he's got a fair and square shot at Eva and Gideon cannot tell the world Eva belongs to him (Gideon).

I love your theory jls1216 and sscrph. I can see it now in Chapter Four -- Brett takes the microphone to announce "this song is going out to Eva Tramell, my Golden Girl, who is here tonight." Then Brett immediately launches into performing the song in the middle of Times Square. That song is acoustic guitar -- all Brett needs is his own guitar, not the rest of the band to perform the song then and there.  Gideon, Gideon, Gideon, you have only yourself to blame for this now. If Brett knew the truth you and Eva were passionately in love and still very much involved with one another, he'd have never gone near Eva again, let alone start publicly wooing her in front of the whole world. But because of what you've done, Gideon, Brett concluded (with good reason) weeks ago you didn't love Eva back. In fact, it seems you even stopped dating because she kissed him (Brett). In any case, it's been crystal clear for weeks the only woman you want is the ex-fiancee who ran back to you. Eva is a single woman. She still feels some sexual chemistry for Brett too. Eva is fair game -- and even though Brett ought to be afraid of you, Gideon, Brett wants Eva so badly he'll risk further angering you.  So suck it up Gideon and just be glad you know for certain that no matter what Brett says or does, Eva's not going back to him. She's back together with you in secret, and you no longer need to be afraid your darkest secrets would ever cause her to run away from you forever. For right now -- again, through your own fault, Gideon -- you can't breathe a word, yet declare to the whole world "Eva is mine."

Bottom line: the cops know for sure now Gideon did not reject Eva. Thank God, they probably cannot use Eva's admission she dumped Gideon on Saturday morning, because the detective asked Eva a question (about the phone call) without Eva's lawyer present. However, unless and until that detective's mistake makes the prosecutor decide to drop the case, Gideon and Eva remain in a bind. The prosecutor still has other evidence it could use against Gideon to destroy his cover story about rejecting Eva in favor of Corrine before Nathan died.   The prosecutor has potential witnesses that might possibly convince jurors Gideon was still involved with -- and very much in love with -- Eva even after Nathan died. These witnesses would be evidence the police/prosecution can gather fair and square -- and so it would be admissible. It's prosecution evidence the jury might buy over any defense Gideon's lawyers mount to the contrary.  The detectives caught him at Eva's family dinner after the body was found, evidence he was still seeing Eva the week Gideon supposedly had already dumped her for Corrine. A couple of weeks later, Gideon barged (actually trespassed) into Dr. Lucas' offices to symbolically "rescue" Eva from a a bitter enemy of Gideon's with good reason to hurt Eva. A prosecutor could spin Lucas incident to show the truth Gideon remained in love with Eva the whole time he had been trying to cover his own tracks by "seeing" Corrine.

Even if Gideon all along has told Corrine point blank in private he wants nothing more than friendship, it doesn't matter. He's treating her like his girlfriend in front of other people in a deliberate effort to make people think they've started dating again. Eva believed it to be true (for three awful weeks) no matter how much Gideon had denied earlier that summer he had no interest in going back to Corrine, who had made it clear she (Corrine) wants him back. Why wouldn't Corrine believe it to be true Gideon wants her back -- and now has taken the first step toward getting back together with her -- spending time with her and taking her out places? Only her? That's dating. When Eva dumped Gideon, she accused Gideon of having been too much of a coward to just admit he's gone back to Corrine. Corrine could easily be led to believe when Gideon started spending time together with her (Corrine), he just can't admit it to himself (YET) he wants Corrine back. Especially because -- this is key -- Gideon CANNOT deny it is true he's "seeing" Corrine. Not to anyone. Now that Nathan is dead, Gideon is stuck having to lie, even if by omission. When Eva dumped him, he was forced to lie by omission even to Eva herself. So now he's stuck in a tight spot where he needs to lie by omission to Corrine too. By continuing to spend time with Corrine in a manner people think is "dating" he can fool Corrine into thinking it's true they ARE dating, but Gideon just hasn't admitted it to himself yet. Because the cops absolutely must not be able to PROVE he never left Eva. Right away, the cops started busting their b***** to break his alibi. It took Graves three visits to the place where Gideon held his alibi party -- on the third visit, Graves found the possible hole, the hour-long interruption the fire caused. The next step would be trying to expose his true motive (loves Eva) by breaking his cover (rejected Eva over Corrine). To break the story, they'd probably attempting to question people close to him. They might even try asking Corrine or Eva herself. In fact, that's just what Graves did to start breaking Gideon's lack-of-motive cover story. Detective Graves tricked Eva into admitting Eva dumped Gideon AFTER Nathan was dead, not Gideon dumped Eva while Nathan was very much alive.

 There's different ways to literally crash some sort of public event -- because there are different motives for doing so and different goals a crasher seeks to achieve. I'll use wedding crashing as the example here, because Corrine's underlying motive and desired outcome were the same.  One form of wedding crashing is where an ex-lover of the bride or groom shows up without warning. The motive is to grab the attention of the ex and especially to blindside the ex's fiancee/new spouse in public view of other people. The desired outcome is to somehow ruin the wedding day for the couple but most especially to ruin things for the person the crasher's ex-lover is marrying. (Or even in extreme cases to try to stop stop the ceremony itself before the couple is pronounced legally married.)  Corrine literally crashed that reception to blindside Gideon in public view of other people, most especially Eva. Corrine did it to grab Gideon's attention and to catch Eva totally off guard. Her primary goal was to hopefully ruin the evening for Gideon and Eva as a couple, but most especially ruin it for Eva. Which Corrine did in spectacular fashion. Mission accomplished.  This is different than crashing a fundraiser by sneaking in unpaid in order to eat/drink for free or for the thrill of mingling with prominent people. Yes, Corrine paid to be there and thus had every right to drink champagne, eat dinner and hang around with members of high society, some of whom (like Gideon) are actual celebrities.

 Gideon had played a very dangerous game of cat and mouse on his own. Now if it's true the cops sent Eva running to him as bait for their trap, he and Eva together are playing an extremely dangerous games with the stakes getting even higher. They're now high for Eva herself, because if she actively plots with Gideon to conceal the murder now, she could face the real possibility of herself being charged as an accessory after the fact.  They've GOT to get the cops to back off. Either by making it impossible for the prosecution to sell the idea Gideon never "dumped" Eva to begin with. Or hope that the huge mistake Detective Graves made when she "set the trap" means all the evidence the trap gets is legally poisoned and so the prosecution must abandon the case forever (Graves asked Eva one question, without a lawyer present, while spilling the beans. She got Eva to admit she broke up with Gideon on Saturday morning.)  Re: Gideon breaking up with Corrine, there are a couple of ways. He could tell Corrine "I realize now I did the right thing years ago by letting you walk away from our engagement. I'm sorry, but I'll never be able to marry you. You deserve better than me. It's over, Corrine. I want you to be happy, and you'll never be that with me." Or he could be more to the point: "I want to go back to Eva and work things out. I was wrong to walk away from her, and she wants to offer me another shot. I realize now I still love her. I'm sorry Corrine, but it'll never work out between you and me."

 No, no, not at a concert. This involves snippet 10 and Chapter 4 snapshot, both of which we got in the past 36 hours.  Synopsis of the snippet 10 - Eva and Cary are in Times Square at some sort of music industry event. Vidal Records just happens to have a tent there.  As the snippet opened, Brett just stepped away from talking to Eva and Cary. It appeared Brett was running off to go do something. As soon as Brett left, Cary spotted Gideon (along with sister Ireland) walking straight toward Eva and Cary. Meanwhile, the Chapter 4 snapshot is a picture of a microphone on a microphone stand.  So the running speculation today we had fun with (see the previous pages) was that Brett had just run off to grab a microphone and let the cat out of the bag -- "the Eva from "Golden" is Eva Tramell, and she's standing in the crowd."  The bullet points were my speculation about what might happen next if Gideon gets caught off guard suddenly, standing next to or even in the immediate vicinity of Eva when Brett takes the mike.  Gideon would have had no idea what Brett had just been talking about to Eva (and Cary). It's obvious Gideon walked over there (using Ireland as a cover excuse) to find out immediately what was up. Imagine Gideon coming up to Eva to get some sort of explanation and suddenly getting surprised by Brett making an announcement.  Gideon would be furious -- and his anger could blind him to the fact a photographer might go running toward Eva to get a picture of "Golden." By the time the flash went off, it would be too late. He'd get bagged in the immediate vicinity of Eva -- looking furious. But the resulting photo could have a silver lining as far as their police problem goes. The photo could be used as a ruse Gideon is still furious with Eva for having "cheated" on him weeks ago, the reason he "dumped" her. It could further reinforce the "Plan B" cover story. The "real" reason Gideon dumped Eva was Brett, not Corrine. Gideon simply hooked up with Corrine on the rebound, not (the real truth) "conveniently dumped Eva" a couple of days before the murder and used Corrine as a cover.

 No, she'd never leverage the Corrine situation ever again. Twice in the past, Eva's raging insecurity and jealousy where Corrine was concerned prompted her to gravitate toward Brett. She'll never do that again -- because she finally has faced that demon and moved beyond it.  But right now, if Gideon started privately howling in protest over Eva having any sort of direct contact with Brett, Eva would be 100% right telling Gideon "you Cross, me Cross Woman ain't gonna cut it, Ace." He's got to stand back, sit on his hands, and trust Eva to deal with Brett herself. On her own, handle situations in which Brett ends up showing up somewhere she is. On her own talking to Brett to continue to try to convince Brett she meant what she told him at lunch weeks ago -- there's no chance she'll ever take Brett back.  This is different now (because things are so different) than the episode weeks ago when Eva did, in fact, deliberately leverage Corrine against Gideon. Gideon had blown Eva off without even a phone call Monday night in order to take Corrine to dinner. Eva, who found out online the next day, took Brett out to lunch in direct retaliation. THAT was leveraging Corrine against Gideon. At the time, Gideon deserved it. He's lucky Eva didn't do something worse. Like making sure some paparazzi got a picture of her and Brett sitting together at a restaurant table. Honestly, Eva entertained that nasty impulse briefly, still freshly furious about having just seen pictures of Gideon with Corrine at a front table at Tableau One just the night before.

I would love it if Christopher Jr., sleaze bucket that he is, always trying to get into the pants of any women who ever longed for Gideon, to get his a** handed to him by the love of Gideon's life. Get put into his place by his future sister-in-law -- and it ain't Corrine, either. It'd be Eva with her mad Krav Maga skills. Just let Christopher try to get fresh with Eva once. He'll never do it again. Â

Besides, if anyone deserves "revenge" it's Corrine, not Brett. Corrine deliberately manipulated Eva's weaknesses and came within an inch of destroying Eva's love for Gideon. Â What did Brett do that deserves "revenge"? Â Kiss Eva before he knew she had a boyfriend. Um, she kissed Brett back. Go talk to her a few days later to ask if the Gideon relationship was serious. And was told basically Eva wasn't sure. Come back to New York to see the newly-single Eva. Gideon already hooked up with another woman, one he was probably going to end up marrying. Gideon would be hurting Brett for spite and jealousy, not for revenge.

Right now if Gideon did anything to "break" Brett's career, the cops would be all over that. What more proof could you want Gideon is still crazy about Eva? It'd be a "golden" opportunity to establish proof Gideon had motive to kill Nathan. Â Besides, Gideon has got ZERO, nada, zip right to complain about "Brett-Eva!!!!", not after all the "Gideon-Corrine!!!!" publicity Gideon deliberately set up. Gideon's the one who got himself into this predicament, and he's only himself to blame. He just should shut up and thank God on bended knee Eva still loves him. And to trust she's not going to ever kiss Brett again, let alone sleep with him. (Yes, yes -- it'll be hard, Gideon -- deal with it. You asked Eva to blindly trust you. So now you gotta trust her in return.) Â The story was bound to get out anyway once Brett finished the concert tour and sought out Eva in New York. There were too many witnesses to the fight, including the rest of the band. Might as well make the best of it. -- if people believe Gideon dumped Eva because she cheated on him, no way can the prosecution convince a jury that almost a week later, Gideon murdered Nathan.

I think I got it all figured out -- figured out how the murder investigation is gonna go "buh-bye" Â If so, starting on June 5 I'm gonna be here in an Entwined spoiler thread saying "told you all so." But only about that part of the story. Â But I'm going to enjoy every sweet and every hot scene between Gideon and Eva. Â Be absorbed into what Entwined is really about -- Gideon's dark past. Once the murder investigation is out of the way, we can get to what Entwined is really about. Â Find out what happens to every character I love (like Cary) to characters I kinda like (Brett - his only mistake is wanting Eva back) to characters I cannot stand (Corrine, Christopher Jr.)

 Exactly, Mrs. Crossfire!!!! This is what the detective KNOWS. But she can't yet PROVE it. Trying to gather evidence in order to establish this truth if the entire reason for the trap.  This goes right back to the legal theory of "plausible deniability" (a term Gideon himself used.) Even if something is true (Gideon never rejected Eva) if the cops cannot present evidence to establish beyond reasonable doubt it's true, then by default Gideon can deny it's actually is true he never rejected Eva in order to cover his tracks.  Right now, all Detective Graves has is a look of anguish on Gideon's face Saturday morning, and the fact Gideon had dinner with Eva's roommate and her father Friday night.  This goes up again against press photos that could counter "prove" that even before Nathan died, Gideon was already done with Eva and had already begun dating his ex fiancee (who very publicly left her husband in France, moved all the way back to New York, and in front of a high society crowd at a fundraising dinner snagged Gideon right out from under Eva's nose.) In fact, one of those photos shows Gideon partying with Corrine the same night "someone" killed Nathan.  Plus it looks like we're about to get even more convincing proof - Eva "cheated" on Gideon with Brett first. Then Gideon dumped Eva on the spot. Then a couple of nights later, a photographer got proof Gideon was dating Corrine again. All of that went down when Nathan was still very much alive.  Even more crucial Mrs. Crossfire is your observation above: "Eva telling her (Detective Graves) she broke up with him Saturday surely helped put a sticker on it" (Meaning Graves found out for certain it was Eva dumping Gideon AFTER Nathan was dead and Gideon being shattered about it, not the other way around -- Gideon rejecting Eva almost a week before the murder (i.e. the night of the concert when he caught Eva in Brett's arms.)  Graves made a HUGE mistake that could cost her the whole case when she tricked Eva into confirming it was true Eva dumped Gideon on Saturday.  When she approached Eva to set Eva (and Gideon) up by spilling the beans, the very first thing Eva said was she didn't want to talk (i.e. answer any questions) without a lawyer. So Graves said she was going to do all the talking -- Eva could just listen. Which actually does not violate Eva's rights. BUT Graves slipped over the important line when she ASKED Eva, "You broke up with him on the Saturday after we interrupted your dinner, didn't you." Eva nodded yes. Right then and there, because Graves was winging it and pushing hard, she crossed a line into violating Eva's right to have a lawyer present for questioning, a right Eva was careful to remind Graves of upfront. That "nod yes" now potentially is inadmissible as evidence. And if the prosecutor in the case recognizes that right away (or the defense gets a judge to throw the "yes" answer out of evidence) not only is that nod "yes" now poison -- every later piece of evidence Graves might now get as a direct result of Eva's nod is also poison. The whole trap itself might end up infected by legal poison. There's a legal phrase "fruit of the poisoned tree." Â

 The email itself (which the cops can easily get a copy of) actually reinforces the whole lie -- Eva was heartbroken Gideon was now spending time with Corrine. It could easily be interpreted as Eva being desperate. Because actually, that was the God's honest truth at the time Eva wrote it, and anyone reading it would see that.  Right now, the cops have NO REASON to know Gideon snuck into Eva's apartment within hours of getting that email. So they've no reason to ask Cary about that night.  However, if they did ask get around to questioning Cary, at least where things stood the day after Gideon snuck in to Eva's room again, here's what Cary could say:  Gideon let himself into Eva's room weeks ago (on a Wednesday night) in order to "bang" Eva out of his system. He then snuck out before daybreak the next morning (Thursday) while she was still asleep. Later Thursday, he ignored her in the middle of an important meeting in front of her boss. Thursday night, he took Corrine to the hotel. Yes, Gideon came over for dinner Friday night, but that had been planned well over a week before. It was crystal clear however he was all-but finished with Eva. (By coincidence, it had been Friday morning Nathan's body was found.) Saturday morning, Eva found out about Corrine and the hotel, and she dumped Gideon For well over a week after the break-up, Gideon didn't have anything to do with Eva. But finally, after more than a week of ZERO contact, Gideon did something weird - pinned Eva to an elevator wall and put the ring back on her finger. Without any explanation whatsoever to Eva. I'm not sure Eva told Cary about the car ride she took with Gideon the next morning (Tuesday.) But I think she didn't say a word -- never said a word because that could involve telling Cary about the deep dark secrets Gideon revealed to Eva in the car -- some details about the sexual abuse Gideon suffered. If that's true, all Cary knew about was the weird elevator meeting. Here's where Reflected ends and Entwined immediately picks up: Wednesday evening, the cops spilled the beans to Eva. That night, Gideon snuck in and stayed the night with Eva. This next part is conjecture about what Cary could say as things stood at the open of Entwined (well, what we've pieced together thus far here) -- Two nights after the elevator incident, Gideon snuck into Eva's room again. To get laid. Banged her all night then next day went back to all but ignoring her in public. Looks like this time Gideon may have managed to finally bang Eva out of his system. HOWEVER -- Danger. The cops got Gideon and Eva to spend a night together being physically intimate immediately after they tricked Eva into running to Gideon, lying to her the coast was clear.  Problem is they can't prove using Cary as a witness that Gideon and Eva reconciled -- if Eva kept the real truth from Cary. If that were the case, the most the cops could prove is Gideon f**** Eva. But Cary could "truthfully" say it was nothing more than what Gideon did weeks ago, even when Nathan was still alive -- bang her and then reject her the morning after. So any possible Cary testimony would help the defense, not the prosecution.