...one. Drying her eyes, she went downstairs to the den and looked at the new computer that had been the cause of a huge argu- ment when she’d bought it.... ...ND SO BEGAN the days and weeks that Lacey sat, transfixed, in front of her computer. All else in her life became a distrac- tion. It was as if she wer... ... if she were pouring her heart and soul into lives she was creating on the computer screen. Here, at last, she was in control. She could make the bad ... ...hildren and Roger went back to school, but Lacey was drawn each day to the computer and 32 SUSAN BRACKEN her writing. By mid September, she finished ... ...winter, when she was not at work at the bookstore, she pounded away on her computer. She finished Marilyn by March, and was well into Sarah by the tim... .... There was a worn patch in the flooring in front of the kitchen sink. The appliances were old, a dishwasher non-exis- tent. Jake felt anew the desire...