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 I think he deliberately arranged for the paparazzi to show up and made absolutely certain it was leaked exactly who Corrine was. Remember, she'd lived overseas for many years and only very recently had moved back to New York. Who knows -- maybe Arnoldo himself was the one Gideon asked to do it. Asked Arnoldo to give him a a table for two at the front of the restaurant and tip off the paparazzi himself in order to absolutely guarantee the pictures and story got out.  What Gideon was doing was far too crucial to simply leave to chance. He had to be sure the tabloid gossip he was out with his former fiancee would hit the Internet as soon as possible. Because Nathan was out there watching Gideon as part of stalking Eva. It worked too -- the story about Gideon and Corrine was all over the place the next morning, as Eva soon found out.

 Eva's Dad, Victor, is probably going to end up hating Monica before this is all over. Hate her for Eva's life having been in danger because Monica still tried to resort to using money in order to keep secret the fact her own daughter was raped for four years as a child right under Monica's nose. That once again, Monica decided to make the Nathan problem go away by having a rich husband shell out millions of dollars.  If it is true that Gideon was the one who finally put an end to Nathan, Victor probably is going to end up shaking Gideon's hand. Or even better, give Gideon Eva's hand in marriage.

Even Detective Graves thinks Gideon immediately let himself get photographed with Corrine in order to fool Nathan into thinking he (Gideon) had backed away from Eva. It was on Monday (the day he found out who attacked Cary) Gideon took Corrine out to dinner and manipulated the tabloids into making a big deal - "Gideon Cross and Former Fiancee!!!" Pictures were all over the Internet by the next morning, where Nathan the Stalker would have surely seen them. Â I think Gideon spent Monday and most of Tuesday having his people investigate from every last angle. By then, I'm sure the list of options Gideon already had in his head including killing Nathan. But he had a meeting at his apartment on Tuesday night, and whatever he learned then sealed Nathan's fate. So Gideon threw together a plan to make that happen within the next 48 hours. Â On Wednesday, he put into place something very crucial - getting Cary brought home from the hospital so that Cary would be with Eva on Thursday night as part of Eva's alibi. I'll bet that same day, Gideon arranged his own alibi: had his PR people schedule the party, including making sure press got invited. Then he asked Corrine to go with him. Â "It has to be this way" he told Eva sometime in the middle of the night between Wednesday and Thursday as he made love to her. Nathan was going to die Thursday evening, and Gideon's plan for getting away with the murder was going to involve deliberately hurting Eva. Hurt her as part of his own cover -- but also hurt her in order to protect her from ever being accused of being involved in Nathan's murder, if he (Gideon) got caught. Â I'm convinced Gideon himself did the deed, but I don't think he acted alone. My own theory is Angus was an accomplice. However, I am open to the idea that Monica and/or Stanton may have been accessories to the plot, Â especially accessories "after the fact" -- meaning they're helping to cover up the crime. It's even possible that while Gideon and Eva had been away for the weekend the attack on Cary happened, that Monica and Stanton found out first Nathan had done it, and it was the pair of them who alerted Gideon and his security people on Monday.

 I'm OK with the fact he did it to save Eva's life from a maniac who would have kidnapped her, raped her again and then brutally murdered her, and probably dumped her body where it would never be found.  But I wish Gideon hadn't taken the law into his own hands.  I wish he, Monica and Stanton had all gone to the cops and had Nathan sent to prison for decades for possession of child p*** (the pictures and video), multiple counts of attempting to "sell" that material to them, and multiple counts of attempted extortion. Definitely, they ought to have gone to the cops when things escalated to stalking and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.  Who knows what Gideon had been planning prior to the attack on Cary that could have killed him. Maybe he had already been working on something that ultimately would have sent Nathan away. But as soon as Gideon realized Eva was in terrible danger, he hastily threw together a plan to make sure Nathan could never, ever pose a threat to her again. Four days later, Nathan was dead.

I think your theory is very plausible. Why did Gideon pick Arnoldo's restaurant, of all places, to take Corrine. Because just a few days earlier, Eva got caught red-handed in a passionate embrace with another man while Arnoldo was there. Gideon ordered Angus and Arnoldo to get Eva out of his sight that night. I'll bet Gideon never got around to telling Arnoldo he and Eva kissed and made up (er, f***** and made up) later that night.  So who better to gossip to Corrine (and even to the cops, if it ever came down to it) about Gideon having good reason to dump Eva. Especially if Arnoldo is such an old friend of Gideon's -- it's quite possible that he knew Corrine back in the day, trusted Corrine back then and would talk to her now. Arnoldo had been pretty disgusted with Eva the end of that Friday night and was very concerned Eva was going to hurt Gideon badly.  There's a pretty even split here in the community between people who think Gideon's telling Corrine they're only friends and people who think Gideon is ruthlessly lying to Corrine (actively and/or by omission) because he will do almost anything in order to ensure he and Eva can be together again as soon as it is safe.Â

I'm not disparaging Cary -- I love him too and I think he and Eva are good for one another. But they both have "issues" including relationship issues. Each of them is the first to admit that's true -- and both have done so repeatedly to one another. The very place they met was in group therapy years ago, and even to this day, Cary continues to reach out to that therapist. Â Cary has consistently gone back and forth where Gideon is concerned. There are instances where Cary has pointed out the unhealthy affects Gideon has had on Eva at times. He even hoped, after witnessing the nightmare in which Gideon attacked Eva, that she would end it with him. Â As the end of Reflected neared, Cary was openly pushing Brett as Mr. Rebound. Â Plus at times, Cary has done some dumb stuff -- not only in his own relationships, but with his very friendship with Eva. Â Bad enough he let Eva walk blind into that concert, knowing Gideon is a very jealous man. But that pales in comparison to what happened when Eva arrived home early to the orgy in progress. She ordered everyone out. One of the participants asked Cary whether Eva was his wife. His response: (page 323 of Bared) There was a brief flash of embarrassment and guilt on Cary's face, and then he shot me a cocky smile. "My roommate. There's room for more, baby girl." Â To Cary's credit, as soon as the other guy in the orgy, who was clearly on drugs, took that as a green light to approach Eva, Cary told him to back off. I firmly believe Cary would have physically intervened as soon as the guy laid hands on Eva. Which the guy was within inches of doing when fortunately, Gideon arrived just in time. Â No one was sorrier than Cary the next day. And Eva forgave him. What did surprise me is Gideon too let that go, because I would have pictured Gideon demanding Eva move out, it being unsafe for her with Cary bringing home all kinds of people and Gideon so paranoid about Eva's safety. Â But by then, I think Gideon himself recognized the importance Cary plays in Eva's life -- a friend who knows her darkest secrets about being raped and is someone she can turn to. I bet Gideon wishes he had a similar friend. Also, Eva had long since been able to convince Gideon that she and Cary were strictly platonic. Initially, Gideon had his jealous doubts in that department. Â Bottom line -Â Good friends that they are, Cary is messed up and sometimes does stupid things. So does Eva. And Gideon most certainly does too. This entire series is about all of them changing for the better -- that through loving and coming to trust other people (and getting professional help) they leave their demons behind one at time.

 I could see Graves selectively telling Victor only enough to fool him into thinking Gideon's motive for killing Nathan was the blackmail -- Mr. Celebrity Billionaire didn't want his image sullied in the tabloids by salacious stories that out there are sexually explicit photos of a socialite he had been dating. It would be an embarrassment to him. And instead of paying money Gideon could easily afford to make the problem go away, Gideon resorted to pre-meditated murder.  I can see Graves keeping from Victor the real truth that Eva's life was in danger and Gideon loved Eva so much he killed to save her life. Remember -- unless and until they arrest Gideon, what the cops have squirreled away in their case file is hidden. They and they alone know the supposed whole picture, and a lot of people (including Eva herself) have been keeping secrets from Victor.  So with just a little spin, let Victor know about the blackmail. Tell him they believe Gideon kicked Eva to the curb because of it and made "dead" certain no one would ever find out about those pictures. Victor has seen evidence of the lie Gideon never loved Eva, so initially he might buy it. The tension between Eva and Gideon at dinner on Friday night. The fact Gideon tried to hide from Eva, when the cops asked him right in front of both Eva and Victor himself, where he'd been one night before (Thursday.) The "proof" Victor easily found on the Internet that Gideon had just started seeing his former fiancee again, right behind Eva's back.  Bottom line: Gideon is a ruthless S of a B who thinks only of himself. He's a stone-cold killer, and Victor needs to help the cops put him away.  I think Graves is betting Eva will continue to keep secrets from her father instead of opening up and telling Victor the whole truth. Graves saw with her own eyes that Eva immediately lied to Dad by saying Nathan was just a "bully." And obviously in the weeks since then, Eva has kept her mouth shut. Eva has never been honest with Dad about Nathan in the past, and thus far she can't in the present, so why should Eva change even after Dad finds out some things about Nathan.  Graves is desperate and is now taking chances, including trying to use Eva against Gideon. I can see Graves trying to use Victor against Gideon too.

For more than a decade, Monica has successfully buried deep the secret Eva was raped for four years right under her nose. Even Eva herself has kept that secret hidden deep. The only people who know from Eva know it because they needed to know -- Cary, because he was part of the group therapy that changed her life for the better, and Gideon because Eva feared the secret might come out eventually. I firmly believe Victor does not yet know (as Reflected ended). But because of Nathan's murder, he's going to find out any day now. All h*** will break loose when he learns Nathan was a rapist. He'll never look at Monica all starry-eyed ever again. Even if a part of him never stops loving her, the father in him will never forgive her for allowing someone he loves even more, his only daughter, to be victimized so brutally as a child the damage won't ever be able to completely be undone. And soon he'll find out Eva's very life was put in danger recently because Monica still insisted on keeping Nathan a deep, dark secret she's still deeply ashamed of. She ought to have called the cops when Nathan showed up in New York and tried to blackmail her and her latest rich husband -- blackmail them with sexually explicit photos and video whose mere existence could send Nathan to prison for decades. What he had was child p*** of Eva. Even though he had been just a teen-ager when he made it, as a full-fledged adult now, he had possession of it, and he was trying to "sell" it for a $2.5 million payoff. Â Instead, Monica and her latest rich husband strung Nathan along in order to continue to keep the secret. During that time, Nathan stalked Eva. He wasn't just after money -- he was after Eva herself. Nathan was crazy -- and he had begun to escalate out of control. He beat up Eva's roommate/best friend so badly the guy could have died. Even the cops recognized sooner or later, he would have killed Eva. Victor is going to be even angrier for Monica failing to protect their daughter as a grown woman too, not just as a little girl.

Maybe it is true the cops truly have dropped the case, but until they're 100% certain that's true, Gideon and Eva are going to need to be safe by him continuing to cover his tail (he never loved Eva and thus had no motive to kill to protect her.) Â I just don't see that happening though -- that'd be far too easy and convenient. But I do see Gideon "walking" on this case, walking off into the sunset, hand in hand with Eva. The cops will go too far and so any evidence they do get would be inadmissible. The case will get officially dropped, by the prosecution, because they can't take it to trial. Maybe they can't even take it to the point of arresting him. Â Hopefully, that'll be early in Entwined that the Gideon and Eva don't have to hide anymore.

I think that Magdalene would jump at a chance to twist Corrine's tail. Remember, Magdalene can be a very nasty woman. Even if Magdalene now fully understands she can't ever have Gideon herself, she'd welcome any opportunity to help make sure Corrine can't have him either. Plus, the kind of self-esteem issues Magdalene has weren't solved by her getting a makeover. So if Gideon asked her to accompany him somewhere, be it a society function or dinner for two, she'd say "what time should I be ready." Â Regarding Eva, Gideon being so in love with Eva that he would kill to save her life is the motive for Nathan's murder. His pretending he never loved Eva to begin with is his defense he had no motive to kill. So for now, until the coast is actually clear, he can't go back to Eva. He can continue to live the lie he jumped at the second chance Corrine has given him -- Â or -- he can resume his old M.O. of seeing various socialites. He had been (the world assumed) "seeing" Magdalene most of all just prior to Eva. To hang out with Magdalene again would even further reinforce the lie Eva had simply been one of the bevvy of beauties, nothing more. Â Mind you, I'm not excusing Gideon using Magdalene, Corrine or any new woman. (Well, maybe Corrine -- she's only herself to blame for the position she's in.) Gideon has been wrong for being dishonest with everyone, Eva most of all. But now that he's stuck covering his tail, I wouldn't mind seeing Magdalene unknowingly helping him and Eva be able to be together again some day soon. And I think it would be easier for Eva to stomach Gideon be spotted with both Magdalene and Corrine instead of spending time with only Corrine.

 I think Cary is now on Team Brett, deciding that Gideon has got to go and Brett's perfectly positioned to move in. Cary thinks Gideon is bad for Eva (and in a way, Cary's got a point. The rockiness of the relationship has been very bad for Eva, triggering everything from her old angry side to her Nathan nightmares, and he's actually seen Gideon attack Eva during one of his own nightmares.)  Just like Cary has a bad habit of undermining his own relationships when they start to turn serious, Cary is now undermining Eva and Gideon. Cary might not even consciously recognize this is what he's doing. Or if he does, he believes he's got Eva's best interests at heart. After all, all Brett was guilty of in the past was being promiscuous instead of being monogamous with Eva. Given that Cary himself won't be monogamous, he'd hardly fault Brett there.

Perhaps Corrine sensed all those years ago that Gideon was all too willing to settle -- settle for being chased, settle for being seduced, settle for getting engaged. But when she no longer could deny the sexual relationship was dead-end (he still wouldn't spend an entire night with her nor have sex anywhere other than the hotel) the engagement itself was dead-end. So she got desperate, and she tried to break the stalemate by making him chase her. It didn't work. Gideon let her go instead of fighting for her.  Fast forward to the very recent past, the night Bared ended. She actively began chasing Gideon again, crashing a fundraiser where Gideon was with his new girlfriend. And so with her own eyes at that very dinner, Corrine watched him figuratively fight for Eva and literally chase Eva out the door. I think that's when something snapped inside Corrine, and she turned from a "good person" to a scheming b****  The next morning, she awoke with a fully-formed plot to destroy the relationship.   In Reflected, Gideon started "seeing" Corrine again, spending time with her in a way that made everyone assume they were a couple again. And as soon as Gideon started taking Corrine out, Eva vanished from his life. I'll bet for those last three weeks of Reflected, Corrine deluded herself into thinking she had won. Just like all those years ago, he was letting himself be caught all over again. Step by step he would settle for dating her exclusively again, then sleeping with her again -- and ultimately settle for marrying her. This time, she would make certain the wedding took place. Chasing him all those years ago worked then -- and it was working beautifully now.  So it was a very nasty surprise when Eva confronted her and Corrine learned the hard way her plot to destroy what Eva had with Gideon did not work. The Eva showdown came in the final 36 hours of Reflected, and as far as Corrine knew as the story ended, Gideon and Eva were still apart. But it was obvious Eva had not given up on Gideon. So as Entwined opens, will we find a Corrine who has resigned to the inevitable - Eva will go back to Gideon? Or will Corrine turn even uglier in order to keep them apart? Only June will tell.

If Victor had known while he was in New York that his daughter had been systematically raped for four years as a child right under Monica's nose, no way would he have been so sweet and starry-eyed with Monica when he ran into her at Eva's apartment. No way. Besides, Victor arrived at LaGuardia Airport very early the next morning after Nathan's murder. Victor's got an alibi -- and the investigation was still in its earliest stages during the weekend Victor was there. No way would the cops have spoken to Victor yet, not when they were still working their way down the suspect list (at that point, the sole person they had definitely crossed off was Eva herself.) I do think the timing of Victor's visit ended up being fate, because he ended up being right there when the homicide detectives first approached Eva and Gideon at Eva's apartment. He saw Eva do something that immediately excluded her as a suspect (her honest reaction she had no idea Nathan had been in New York.) And he also saw Gideon was hiding things from Eva: 1. Gideon had known about Nathan being in New York.  2. Gideon didn't want Eva to know where he'd been on Thursday. Overnight by using the Internet, Victor already figured out the second secret - behind Eva's back on Thursday night, Gideon had been partying with the ex-fiancee that the tabloids claimed Gideon had suddenly started seeing again a few days before. My theory -- I'm certain that since then (in the couple of weeks that passed after Nathan died, up to the end of Reflected), Victor has been digging hard in the background from out in California. He's figured out Eva had no role in Nathan's death. He's likely already put together the fact Barker had been Monica's first husband (and thus Victor could figure out how long Nathan had been Eva's stepbrother starting when she was a little girl up to her early teens.)  However, he's probably been stymied thus far to get the whole story out of the detectives about Nathan having been in New York, what that had to do with Gideon, and most importantly -- have the cops come close yet to solving the case. I'll bet he'll have gotten no straight answers (yet) out of Graves and her partner. Gideon wouldn't have even returned any phone calls Victor tried making. I'll bet Victor has even begun trying to reach Monica by now, but Monica won't return his calls either. Under my theory that Detective Graves is trying to use Eva to trap Gideon, I think Graves is going to start selectively feeding Victor info early in the Entwined story in the hopes that he will persuade Eva to cooperate with the police. For all we know, right after Graves finished talking to Eva at Krav Maga at the very end of Reflected, Graves picked up the phone to call Victor the instant Eva went running straight to Gideon's apartment. Graves has begun grasping at straws, and she'll try anything that might help her get Gideon. Including calling in Eva's father.

Tossing out another press-related theory .....  What if Gideon takes Magdalene as his "date" to some society function where the pair of them would be photographed walking the press gauntlet. He could be honest with Magdalene he's asking her purely as an old, family friend. Like Corrine, Magdalene is "from back then."  Magdalene has got to know at this point she hasn't got a chance with Gideon, because of the sex tape with Christopher that Gideon himself showed her, Corrine actively trying to get him back and Eva still out there somewhere.  Magdalene may have been a fool where Gideon was concerned in the past. But she's not a total idiot about the threat that Corrine and Eva both pose now. She saw for herself how hot the sex was with Eva, and she knows the history Gideon has with Corrine. So when Eva entered the picture, Magdalene's chances dropped considerably, and when Corrine re-entered the picture very soon after, all of Magdalene's chances were gone. She was now in third place to two women Gideon had slept with -- and she got caught sleeping with Christopher Jr.  By being pictured with yet another woman on his arm, Gideon could start the whole "bevvy of socialites" thing all over again  -- the very frenzy some tabloids had gotten into when he first started dating Eva. It would accomplish two things:  Continue to reinforce the public lie that Eva was just one of several socialites he dated. More importantly, put a damper on Corrine's assumptions she (Corrine) has won him back. If it is true that Gideon is telling Corrine he's spending time with her just as a friend, he could reinforce that message by socializing with another old friend, Magdalene.

 Interesting theory. Back in Reflected, we had Eva briefly view press-related things on two matters:  Press pictures Eva saw online of Gideon with Corrine "That Week" -- pictures that would make anyone assume he started seeing Corrine again that week. (The whole point behind him manipulating the media was to trick them into assuming it was true.) Cary giving Eva the gist of something Cary read online -- Brett told an interviewer he recently "reconnected" (exact word) with Eva. Pages 232 and 233 in Reflected -- Gideon and Eva briefly fight in the elevator lobby outside his office. Last night, he'd taken Corrine to dinner, and Eva had just gotten back from taking Brett to lunch. Gideon was in no position to be honest about why he had dinner with Corrine. Eva owed him no explanation about why she just took Brett out to deliberately get even with Gideon.  However this all later plays out (and I've got my wild theories about a media feeding frenzy over love triangles -- see my longer post above in the thread) the fact is that in Chapter One, Gideon and Eva are way overdue for a long talk about what really went on with both Corrine and Brett during That Week.  So maybe Clue One means that in Chapter One, Gideon is at last going to (because he now can) explain to Eva exactly what he had been doing behind the scenes to fool Corrine herself into making assumptions about his spending time with Corrine in public. And at last he finally gets to ask what Brett meant by "reconnected."  The pair of them need to talk about everything they couldn't say when they argued a few weeks earlier, just days before Eva dumped Gideon.

I can't wait to see how she takes it when she realizes she never had Gideon back to begin with. Corrine certainly became furious during the showdown with Eva, when Eva made it clear she (Eva) knows Gideon hadn't been sleeping with Corrine recently and wasn't going to so ever again, because he was in love with her (Eva). Dropping an f-bomb and slamming her door were Corrine's reactions.

I think that when Brett comes back to town when the concert tour ends, Cary is going to end up leaking -- deliberately or inadvertently -- that Eva is the woman in the song Golden. Then over at Vidal Records, Christopher Jr. is going to have a press field day with it, both for record company publicity and as a golden opportunity (pun intended) to twist Gideon's tail. All it would take is a little digging on Christopher's part to uncover the dirt on how Eva used to be a wild groupie. It'd be as easy as Christopher asking some of the band members.  Eva would never use Brett, but I can see she and Gideon ultimately using the tabloid feeding frenzy to their advantage, because it would create a plausible reason -- jealousy -- for Gideon to suddenly be interested in Eva again. A plausible reason even the cops would recognize that some jury might buy. It would create the fake public appearance of a second love triangle, this one with Gideon, not Eva, on the short end -- and Gideon wanting to do something about it, given his nature. In the process, he blows it with Corrine.  Here my theories about how the spin could be made via some well-planned nudging in the background by Gideon (with Eva helping.)  Right now, as Entwined opens, we have love triangle number one: Corrine-Gideon-Eva. In Reflected, Gideon had been in the middle between the two women. Corrine, whom he had wanted to marry years ago suddenly came back to him. At the time, Eva was his relatively new girlfriend. He jumped at the second chance with Corrine and Eva came out on the losing end. However, Gideon naturally assumed Eva would wait around as number two, holding a torch like every other woman who has ever been serious about him. But as Entwined unfolds, the public sees a new, second love triangle develop: Brett-Eva-Gideon. Brett the rock star who wrote Eva a beautiful love song begging for another chance, a song that's a hit and he's been performing on a concert tour. And he's already been telling the media, back in Reflected, he's reconnected with Eva and wants another shot. Years ago, Eva wanted him -- badly. Now all Eva has to do is snap her fingers and Brett is her's. Eva suddenly has a very viable option to waiting around hoping things don't work out between Gideon and Corrine. And Gideon doesn't like this new development one bit. He's never had to compete for a woman before, and it brings out every last competitive ounce in him. There aren't too many guys that can give a celebrity billionaire a run for his money (another pun intended) but a celebrity rock star is one. So Gideon could make this look like he is feeling threatened and this makes him reconsider leaving Eva hanging on the string as his number two choice. Suddenly, he's yet again publicly torn between the two women. Corrine suddenly looks less spectacular beside Eva, who now has both Brett and Gideon interested. Corrine doesn't stand for Gideon being interested in Eva again. So for the second time in her life, Corrine walks away from Gideon (behind the scenes he actually drives her away but lets her walk away with her dignity intact, making it look like she dumped him yet again.)  After Corrine leaves, Gideon openly tries to win Eva again. She has her pick between two wanting another chance, and she chooses Gideon. Both Eva and Gideon had old flames after them, but their rocky new relationship works out in the end. The tabloids would eat this up. The cops would be frustrated yet again -- the pen being mightier than the sword (the media being mightier than the cops.)

For the pen, the thing that jumps to mind is the proverb "The pen is mightier than the sword." It means that words are a more powerful weapon than brute force. Napoleon was often quoted as saying he feared hostile newspapers more than he feared bayonets.  I read into it that words (media manipulation) could prove more powerful than the police force.  I know it's a stretch, but that's what came to mind.  BTW, on Twitter, Sylvia indicated there are going to be a total of 22 of these clues. Sweet!

 I don't think Eva ever will be 100% comfortable with Gideon spending time with Corrine. But I do at last see her trusting Gideon, because near the end of Reflected, Eva on her own finally tackled her fears about Corrine. By confronting Corrine herself, Eva determined once and for all Gideon had not slept with Corrine -- not that morning, not the night of the party, not a nooner at the Crossfire. So Eva has faced her own demons.  Eva warned Gideon the day she agreed to be his girlfriend that she could get crazy with jealousy and insecurity. Her issues erupted full fury the night she met Corrine, and her issues around Corrine threatened the relationship every bit as much as Gideon's issues of keeping secrets and shutting Eva out. So now, in Entwined, I expect to see an even stronger Eva no longer insecure about Gideon's love.  As for the Google alerts and the rest of following tabloid coverage of Gideon, that'll be interesting. Will Eva finally do what Gideon has asked all along -- quit reading that stuff? It used to cause her such anxiety. And after the party picture, she finally stopped bothering, because (at the time) she'd seen everything she needed to know her worst fears (at the time and totally wrong) were justified. However -- if Eva is now going to be an active part of fooling the cops, might all of that tabloid stuff now be need-to-know? That she should stay on top of it as part of the plan she's now actively part of?  PRESS is going to be an important topic in Chapter One, per our very first clue.

 It's possible that later in the story, the cops might start pulling the same malarkey that Gideon is -- manipulating the media. Fighting fire with fire?  Maybe Chapter One would simply involve Gideon and Eva finally being able to talk about everything they couldn't for the prior three weeks -- everything from the day Gideon started pulling away. Including his using Corrine as a public cover to manipulate the media. And about Eva finally -- finally -- gotten past her insecurity about Corrine, knowing now for certain Gideon never slept with Corrine (since she came back to town.)  Some sweet make-up sex and then a clear-the-air conversation afterward. And a joint decision about how Gideon is continue to conduct himself in public. And the start of a plan of how Gideon and Eva are going to see one another in private. I can see all of that in the first chapter. Sex. Long Overdue Talk. Plan.

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I've got two separate theories: Â More of Gideon continuing to deliberately manipulate the media, especially the tabloids, via continuing to appear in public with Corrine even though he is now secretly seeing Eva. The cops leaking the story to the media that a former step family member of socialites Eva Trammel and her mother Monica Stanton had been found murdered a couple of weeks earlier in New York City. I'm sure the media would mention why Eva is famous enough to be tabloid fodder -- she recently had a hot and heavy thing going on with celebrity billionaire Gideon Cross. Why I like # 1 better: I can see Gideon and Eva making a pact in Chapter One that whatever the danger, they find a way to spend stolen time together. In order to lessen the risk, Gideon is going to need to keep up the public lie he's seeing Corrine. Eva will be willing to put up with that, now that she knows the truth about why Gideon started living that lie. Â His public behavior at the start of Entwined would be a continuation of what he started doing halfway through Reflected. Especially because we know he deliberately set things up to have himself photographed with Corrine on at least two separate occasions the week of the murder. And those are just the ones we know about, because Eva saw those. She quit looking after the picture of the party at the hotel, but Gideon was continuing to spend time with Corrine. Eva caught him red-handed coming out of the Crossfire with Corrine a couple of weeks later. Â Why I think #2 is a possibility Maybe the cops want to continue to turn up the heat on Gideon and Eva, including even draw out of the woodwork people who might know something. Such as a witness who can place Gideon near Nathan's hotel the night of the murder. Or perhaps make it harder for Eva to walk around in public unnoticed, because suddenly she'd be back in the news again, this time for something even juicier than being Gideon's now-former girlfriend.

Here's the link, friends, to the very first one, posted today: www.sylviaday.com/2013/03/19/entwined-snapshot-1/ Â If you cannot see it, it is simply a picture of the word "PRESS" with a fuzzy generic shot of newspaper text in the background and a pen in the foreground.

OK, by popular "yes" votes by several members, this is to start a new thread devoted to Sylvia's latest clever way to keep us enthused and entertained until June -- she's going to post clues to Entwined twice per week -- Tuesday and Friday -- to cover every chapter of the forthcoming novel.  Here's how she explains it on www.sylviaday.com  Between now and the release day of Entwined with You, I’m going to be posting two “snapshots†a week–one on Tuesday and one on Friday. Each snapshot (not to be confused with a snippet or excerpt!) will tie into a chapter in some way. So, two chapter peeks a week from now until June 4th, which will take us through all the chapters.

I saw it KiMa and a couple of us already started talking about it in the Snippets thread. But I'm thinking of starting a brand new thread "Weekly Clues" Â What do folks think? New thread for clues versus adding them into the ongoing discussions both here in the main Reflected spoiler thread as well as the thread devoted to the Entwined snippets?