The idea that she'd ever been someone's entertainment, her trials and errors subject to Nielsen ratings and Entertainment Weekly reviews, rankled even now, but he was right. She knew that. This was one affliction which in no way set her apart. Whatever had been written was behind them.

"Well, it makes the plot harder to predict," she said, wide-eyed but unable to keep from smiling a little, a hand reaching up to rest on his arm. "Clues are... a little harder to come by."