Two-Bit Dancing

Life’S An Onion. Not A New Concept – However It Makes Sense. Usually What We Reveal To Others About Ourselves Adds Flavor And Distinction... Making Us Appear Just A Bit More Exciting. Assume For A Moment If You Will That Someone Is Peeling Your Life Apart Onion Layer By Onion Layer. Are You Still Adding Flavor? Distinction? Is At The Heart Of The Onion Really A Heart? Is It Then The Onion Crying – Or Is It The One Who’S Peeling... This Story Begins In San Diego Where Angela Louie Enters An Elevator In An Upscale Hotel While She’S Fidgeting With An Escort Service’S Business Card. The Only Other Passenger: An Outrageously Gorgeous And Much Younger Man Hanson Lee Ascano – The Kind Who Would Never She’S Sure Give Her A Second Glimpse. She Is A Sensible Woman A Single Mother Of A Teenage Daughter And A Disabled Son. She’S Here Only Because Her Best Friend Talked Her Into Having Some Excitement... And Perhaps More Importantly Earning A Quick And Much Needed Buck. An Earthquake Thunders Through The Building And They Are Left To Escape Together. (Let’S Be Honest Here: Unless There Was Some Supreme Intervention This Story Simply Wouldn’T Happen To Angela.) What Seems A Reaction To Disaster Turns To Romance With Surprising Speed. Angela Learns That Hanson (Han) Is A Passionate Man Who Enjoys Motorbikes Rock Climbing And Exotic Dancing. Her Friend Thinks He’S Hot Her Daughter Finds Him Cute And Although Her Son Wishes He Would Just Disappear Angela Invites Him Into Her Life And Is Amazed At The Ease With Which He Seems To Fit In And Adds Flavor To Her Routines. Ooh He Can Dance... Across The Country Angela’S Ex-Husband Quinton Contemplates Past Mistakes. His New Wife Has Put On The Pressure: She Wants Kids – And Since She’S Unable To Produce Any Herself His Children From Angela Will Do. Quinton’S Got A Big Problem Though: For The Past Five Years Angela Believes Him To Be Dead. Quinton Hires Tom Lawson A Private Investigator To Find Out Anything And Everything About Angela And Her Life Hoping To Come Up With Reasons To Obtain Custody Of His Children. For Tom This Starts Out As A Routine Case And Angela’S Lover Offers Immediate And Juicy Fodder. False Names Abuse And Even Murder. Aspects Of Han’S Life And Past Manipulations Opened Personal Wounds And Tom Is Haunted By Images Of A Child Cowering In A Dark Room. Moreover In The Face Of Han’S Apparent Victim Tom Sees His Own Son Long Dead. So He Continues His Investigations Way Past The Completion Of His Assignment Perhaps Just To Seek Absolution For His Own Parental Shortcomings. What Should Have Been A Routine Case Has Instead Roused Monsters. Use A Tissue - You Know Peeling Onions Has An Effect On The Eyes.