Well damn, it's been a hot second..

2019 marks 10 years since Guy Ritchie's 'Sherlock Holmes' made its way onto screens, and shortly thereafter, 'Dangerous Liaisons' dragged itself out of my 15 y/o brain, onto this here website.

All those years ago, I got involved in a message thread, after answering a question a serial reviewer left on DL's comments page. Months of FF messaging led to an exchange of emails, then to Twitter and Facebook, and now.. I am in the process of packing my things up so that I can move into her spare room. 'Don't talk to strangers online', they said… What's to follow is both a Christmas present to her, and (hopefully) something everyone who enjoyed subscribed to DL would like to read.

I'm calling it, officially: the sequel known as, 'Once Bitten', has been abandoned, and will never be picked up where it left off. Instead…. 'The Value of Everything' is my attempt, now in my twenties, to dust off the cobwebs. TVoE will pick up where 'Dangerous Liaisons' left off, leaving 'Once Bitten' null and void for this version of the canon.

One more before I go post the ACTUAL story: 'Dangerous Liaisons' was written at a time before reaching the age, or stages of social awareness, good sense, and empathy had made me aware that 'trigger warnings' are a valid request, and something authors ought to take seriously, particularly when publishing online work, with a varied audience. In addition, I have long- ago passed the point where I think it's acceptable to use violent rape as a means of character development, to further a plot, or for any reason other than to showcase rape as the horrific act it is. Those who remember DL will know that I failed on both of those counts, and I have since had some comments, asking me to rectify.

To anyone affected by the themes and scenes in DL you were not adequately warned against, I apologise. I will be going back and adding adequate warnings to the chapter in question.

To the second issue, my apology is to Irene Adler. I'm going to do better this time.

Expect less violence; more sex; (hopefully) plenty of laughs; Baker St Shenanigans; and discussions (non-graphic) of rape, and rape recovery.

There's a scale of how well this return to FF could go, from Robert Downey Jr's turning 'unemployable junkie' into 'Tony freaking Stark', to that feeling of dread we all recognise, every time Paul McCartney fishes his guitar out for a rendition of 'Hey Jude' that we can only assume drags on so long because he's forgotten how many 'Na Na Nas' were on the original track.

Let's see, shall we?
M xx