Interview with a Daredevil

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Interview with a Daredevil
ILoveShape-Shifters.com chats with Jon,
the Very Bad Hero of Mind-Blown.

What would any man do,
holding the secrets to mind control
while the woman he wants resists his charms?

          Jon Paige discovers his employer developing illicit mind control techniques. He quickly learns how to hijack the system and breaks down his beautiful assistant’s persistent walls. Will Holly forgive him for sneaking into her mind, if she ever learns of it?
          Holly Maddox is determined not to dip her pen in the company ink, a policy that’s served her well…until Jon comes along. He steals her mind when he’s in the room, weakens her fortitude with every flash of his flirty eyes and secretive smile. How will she keep herself from falling in love with her boss when he melts her impulse control?
          When Jon and Holly decide to sabotage the brain-washing experiments, they learn they’re up against a greater power than they’d bargained for. Doing the right thing risks lives. Will the truth of their beginnings wreck their sizzling affair?

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ILS-S.com: Welcome, Jon. Take a seat, get comfortable.

Jon takes a seat, bounces a little to test the virtue of the chair.

ILS-S.com: So, Jon, you’re the hunky and felonious hero of Mind-Blown, the spicy Sci-Fi Romance available now at BookStrand. What was your motivation to use mind control on your assistant Holly?

JON: (Smiles wildly.) Have you seen her? Take a gander at our book cover. Holly was a stubborn one, wouldn’t open the door for magic between us. A past loss had built high walls around her, and I wasn’t getting past them. It was a stroke of fate that we had divined our company’s mind control tricks. I was offered a last chance to confirm my theory of the discovery, and I took it. And I only pulled off a few small break-ins, nothing worthy of the full-blown adjective “felonious”. (Uses finger quotes.) I prefer the words “resourceful” and “unique thinker”.

ILS-S.com: (Issues a disagreeing moan.) Now, Jon. Federal law would consider the multiple penetrations of a federal medical institution felonious. Note the word "federal", Jon.

JON: (Shrugs, still smiles coolly.) I didn’t take much.

ILS-S.com: You blew up the place, Jon.

JON: (Points in counter-accusation.) That’s hear-say. This isn’t some kind of police entrapment, is it? Because I haven’t admitted to anything specifically, and you have no evidence against me. That’s what my kick-ass attorney will say to any guy wearing a black dress and banging a mallet. (Taps the microphone.) Is this thing on? Will all the G-men in the room please raise your hands?

ILS-S.com: No, Jon, I’m not a government agent.

JON: Spy says what?

ILS-S.com: I’m not falling for that, Jon. So, you tested your theory on Holly?

JON: I actually tested it on a group of unknowing employees, but I did slip a little subliminal romantic help into Holly’s memory experiment. Just to see if I could weaken her stifling opposition against spending casual off-time with me.

ILS-S.com: You say the opportunity to change her mind about not dating coworkers was just too juicy to pass up?

JON: It was. I’m a weak man for a hot redhead and legs up to her chin. I blame a loss of good judgment from basking in Holly’s bewitching company five days a week.

ILS-S.com: Sounds shifty in the employer-ethics corner. Even sounds bad for a friend to have done to another friend.

JON: That it had been, a violation, really. I’m not usually one to wish for this sort of power over another person. I’d felt very badly after I’d done it. I’d wished to undo it, and had thought to confess…until Holly kissed me and led me to her bed. I’d lost all interest in guilt somewhere along the way to her bedroom. Listening to the music of her panting my name in my ear had made me realize there was no going back. Not that I’d wanted to, at that point.

ILS-S.com: Was it a case of desperate people doing desperate things?

JON: Yes, it was exactly that. I’d wanted Holly and lost my mind.

ILS-S.com: I guess you’d figured you’d never get caught. It didn’t end well, did it?

JON: (Shakes his head, looks remorseful, a bit haunted.) No. I hadn’t anticipated my little test-run of brain-washing would end like this at all. By the time it was over, I’d ended up in a red-smeared bunny suit—yes, a bunny suit—with the world media involved. And the FBI asking questions. Even worse, I’d nearly lost Holly. We’ll be in hiding for months, maybe years. We’re in our own little witness protection program.

ILS-S.com: We’ll not tell where you are. When the story had broken world-wide, the President had said he’d like to see you.

JON: I’m open to that, but not Holly. She stays in hiding. The CIA scientists have put her through enough. We’re lucky they hadn’t liquefied her brain. Another thirty seconds…and the unbuffered electro-shock would have killed her. I don’t want to think of it. It just makes me angry.

ILS-S.com: (Refocuses the interview.) Your little thought experiment uncovered an insidious, powerful corporate/government conspiracy and had exploded into big changes for several government agencies. The FDA, the AMA, the NIH, the CDC, the FBI.

JON: Another strike against the very evil CIA. Hopefully, all governments will think again before they try such things on smart, aware people. Somewhere, there will lurk patriots with no fear.

ILS-S.com: Patriots with no fear. Thanks for dropping by, Jon.

JON: It was my pleasure. Watch your government, people.

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