The Secret Butterfly

Frank and John are in the courtroom. Their friend, Pete, is on trial for murder. The District Attorney seeks the death penalty, but Pete's attorney is Marcy Adams. She intuits that, despite the evidence, there is a way to get the jury to acquit her client.

Marty is confused. It's all David's doing. Our nymph had reconciled herself to being fired; but David unexpectedly knocks on her door. He brings a gift and begs her to return. He confesses. Everything is his fault. He wasn't thinking straight. But she's heard these sorts of things from him before. What to do? Whom can she turn to for guidance?

Carl's wife fumed. Tonight, she would end Carl's affair. Her detective work revealed he was staying the weekend at Marty's lakeside cabin. Driving four hours over mountainous roads had exhausted the fitful wife. Finally, she glimpsed the cabin in the distance. As she reached the cabin's white pebbled driveway, she turned off the car's headlights and drove slowly. This would be her moment. She would sneak up on the lovers, surprise them, and take Carl home with her. But when she got out of her car, she immediately realized she had seriously miscalculated.

What would you do if you suddenly discovered you had the world eating out of your hand, as Marty does? What might be going through our nymphomaniac's mind as she tries to sort out her choices and make decisions about her future? Will David want Marty in the company after hearing about her escapades and learning of her trusting liaison with Bertie and George?

Marty feels she's in a good place with David. She trusts him. While talking freely, she reveals that her relationships with Josh and Marshawn are much deeper than with her other porn partners. His questions give no indication of jealousy. Does he see himself as a supportive business executive, or the secretive maestro of multiple dysfunctional personalities?

The Great Spirit of All Living Things has decided the Bertie has grieved long enough. A Monarch butterfly delivers the Spirit's message. Suddenly, Bertie's life has new meaning! She and husband George set out to redefine pornography; rebranding the genre as 'Intimate Artistry.' With their persistent attention to detail and marketing genius, the enterprising couple create Marty as the innocent, cherubic image of Intimate Artistry.

With Bertie's help, Marty creates the most riveting, profoundly content rich, and most explicitly salacious erotic films ever produced. Marty's star, as Queen of Intimate Artistry, now shines brightly in the new, wildly popular, explicit erotica romance genre. Gwendolyn, Marty's wealthy benefactor, reveals a fascinating side of herself that only Bertie can explain. Bertie and George disassemble and remake everything about Marty that makes her Marty. They unlock her dream world to understand her emotions through her dreams.

Marty leveraged her nymphomania into fame and fortune. She's uninhibited and shameless now, fluttering freely with many lovers; and with the help of Bertie and George, she's perfected her seduction techniques and greatly improved her stagecraft. Her intimate film downloads are increasing rapidly. Her goal is to become ranked as the number one star of explicit erotica films. But David has discovered that Marty confided in Bertie and George and created a loose end.

Ruby Butterfly reveals more than the glamorous career highlights of the world's most notorious actress. It delves deeply into the macabre nature of her soul. During her erotica question-and-answer session with Ms. Consuelo Lovely of Porn Beat Television, Marty's thoughts and voices vividly recapture her most recent murders.

Marty's voices reveal her soul's salacious past lives. She is observed talking to herself! Her naked poses for a prince; seduction of a momma's boy, peccadillos, and insights into religious and European morality are her interview topics. But Marty isn't herself. Her past recollections resurface. She remembers her seduction of Moses; his condemnation of his wife and children to the Nile crocodiles; her orgy at the Golden Calf; and her seduction of Aaron's sons. And her most recent murder has her mind deeply troubled.

Dear listeners, our tenth segment explores Marty's thoughts and a flashback to her spirit soul's pagan years. Revisit history. Marty's soul, in the personage of Baalezebelle, seduces Moses and has his wife and children thrown to the Nile crocodiles. And she's just getting started! Bob belatedly realizes he's caught up in a scheme of spirit souls that has gotten him in way over his head. He confides his agreement with David to Barbara.

At the Firm, Bob worked closely with Barbara. She allotted dealers their portions of underwritings and monitored the interest level for Bob's deals as well as interest in competing firms' offerings. She was integral to the syndication and distribution process; always playing her cards close; never giving away information. She didn't suffer small talk or fools. Demand moved their underwriting deals along; deals were closed; companies got their money. Bank arrangements were clearly understood. Everybody looked to Barbara to know where things were in the deal pipeline.

In LOVE AND LOVERS, David put Marty in chains. Why such shocking behavior? Is he a closet psychopath? Will his ingenious crime methods be discovered? What gears and wheels turn in the mind of this deviant sociopath? Maybe we'll learn how someone can commit heinous crimes and believe he's perfectly normal while he is doing them. While Marty visited David, Barbara revealed a few secrets to Bob. He now understands that someone set him up to be the fall guy for misappropriated funds and possibly much more; but whom?

This is book 13 of the Secret Butterfly Series, and the second book of the Series' Insanity Volume. It tells of the unraveling of a mysterious murder and how Barbara sets in motion her revenge plot.