Come With Me
Everything is also something else.
Rick—the charming and mysterious archeology professor—has discovered … something. Something valuable enough to ruin lives for.
Ostensibly, he leads his advanced students on an expedition of the Adriatic coast to gain first-hand experience in the grueling work of archaeology. But Rick, as always, has motives that supersede the obvious.
But it isn't what Rick discovered that matters most to him. It's what he lost. His lifelong love, Nikki, has inexplicably become involved with the notoriously slimy Saul Napier. A man known, and despised, by Rick as a corrupt lawyer who uses the law as a mere plaything—a game to serve his own arrogant self-interests.
Just like any of the beautiful objects Saul is obsessed with possessing, Nikki, too, is just something he sees as an exquisite acquisition. Yet at the same time, Rick is working with Saul and his "business associates," Dryden and Plante.
Attractive reporter Gwen Naslund, good friend to both Nikki and Rick, is shocked Nikki has chosen Saul—the bitter loathing between Gwen and Saul goes back years. But she wants the story of Rick's discovery. Even more, she wants what Nikki appears to have given up—Rick's heart.
The ensemble can't help but create a volatile—and murderous—environment.
Everyone has their motives. And none are quite what they appear. Rick faces personal dilemmas of both heart and … an unusual moral code. Even the seemingly ruthless Saul is driven by forces too complex to be merely dismissed as animalistic.
And somewhere between the lust for love and loot is the young, but incredibly precocious Marie—a girl both Rick and Nikki have come to accept as their de facto daughter. Rick, in fact, feels such paternal love for the girl that he makes plans to officially adopt her; to take her from the life of prostitution she's been forced into.
Will Nikki discover Saul's true motives? Will Rick figure out how to negotiate his way out of the Faustian deals he's made and make a family with Nikki and Marie? Or will greed, lust, murder, and revenge destroy a future that might have been?
