<body bgcolor="#2A2F33" text="#FFFFFF" link="#FFFF33" vlink="#FFCCCC"> <div align="center"> <p><img src="graymain.jpg" width="404" height="515"> </p> <p><i>Trapped within the walls of love, nothing seems real<br> Screaming from deep inside, the pain is hard to bear</i></p> <p><i> No way to run, to where to hide, the thorns cut deep<br> The gray mist surrounds, as black and white disappear </i></p> <p><i>The one that hurts, the one that heals, the one that holds the key<br> What is forbidden, what is dangerous, what the heart needs</i></p> <p><i> One truth in life, lies not strong enough to hold it within<br> A passionate kiss, a tender caress, and the walls crumble in</i></p> <p><i> What has been, what is, and what was unclear<br> What will be all that matters, but the road to destiny is gray</i></p> <p><img src="chapters.jpg" width="300" height="103"></p> <p align="left"><b><font size="3">Prologue:</font></b></p> <p align="left"><font size="3"><b>There is a thin line between love and hate.<br> It is this gray area, the uncertainty that exists, which can hold the answer to dreams or the key to the most horrible nightmares. </b></font></p> <p align="left"><b><font size="3">Only the very brave will dare to enter a world where nothing is as clear as night and day, where instincts are all they can rely on and where the heart is their strongest weapon or their ultimate fall.</font></b></p> <p align="left"><b><font size="3">The one that risks all will find that there is only one truth in life, but never in black and white.</font></b></p> <p align="left"><b><font size="3"><i>July 1999... Hawaiian Islands...</i></font></b></p> <p align="left"><i><b><font size="3">Marlena Evans-Black climbed the rocky cliffs of an Oahu beach. Tears blurred her vision as her eyes tried to scan the ocean for the man she loved. The one she had just married; the man that had promised her paradise. Yet, there was nothing but hell to feel atop the rocks that oversaw the pacific... </font></b></i></p> <p align="left"><i><b><font size="3">13 years of waiting...<br> 9 years of yearning...<br> 1 day of happiness...<br> and then...</font></b></i></p> <p align="left"><img src="flo-buts.jpg" width="50" height="59" align="absmiddle"><a href="ch1.html"><font size="4">Chapter 1</font></a><font size="4">: <i>Without Warnings</i></font></p> <p align="left"><img src="flo-buts.jpg" width="50" height="59" align="absmiddle"><a href="ch2.html"><font size="4">Chapter 2</font></a><font size="4">: <i>A Glimpse into The Past</i> </font></p> <p align="left"><img src="flo-buts.jpg" width="50" height="59" align="absmiddle"><a href="ch3.html"><font size="4">Chapter 3</font></a><font size="4">: <i>Flesh and Bone</i></font></p> <p align="left"><img src="flo-buts.jpg" width="50" height="59" align="absmiddle"><a href="ch4.html"><font size="4">Chapter 4</font></a><font size="4">: <i>Pandora's Box</i></font></p> <p align="left"><img src="flo-buts.jpg" width="50" height="59" align="absmiddle"><a href="ch5.html"><font size="4">Chapter 5 </font></a><font size="4">: <i>Demons in Paradise</i></font></p> <p align="left"><img src="flo-buts.jpg" width="50" height="59" align="absmiddle"><font size="4"><a href="ch6.html">Chapter 6</a>: <i>Oracle and Sphinx</i></font></p> <p align="left"><img src="flo-buts.jpg" width="50" height="59" align="absmiddle"><font size="4"><a href="ch7.html">Chapter 7</a>: <i>How Do I Love Thee</i></font></p> <p align="left"><img src="flo-buts.jpg" width="50" height="59" align="absmiddle"><font size="4"><a href="ch8.html">Chapter 8</a>: <i>The Demon Within</i></font></p> <p align="left"><img src="flo-buts.jpg" width="50" height="59" align="absmiddle"><font size="4"><a href="ch9.html">Chapter 9</a>: <i>Tears of the Moon</i></font></p> <p align="center"><img src="bar.gif" width="500" height="29"></p> <p align="center">© 1999-2000 <a href="mailto:Gray@MysticWords.zzn.com">Angelica Belle</a></p> <p align="left">Disclaimer: Even though the original characters are not mine-- (they belong to Corday Production and Columbia Pictures)-- The story is original and mine. This is just for fun.</p>  <p align="center"><FONT SIZE=4> [ <A HREF="http://beseen4.looksmart.com/guestbook/r/186765/guestbook.html">view guestbook</A> ] [<A HREF="http://beseen4.looksmart.com/guestbook/r/186765/sign.html"> sign guestbook </A>] </FONT></p>   <p align="center"><A HREF="http://www.beseen.com/hc-index.html"> <IMG SRC= " http://pluto.beseen.com/hit.counter?account=farnaz@direct.ca-gray&font=WhiteOnBlack&base=30 " BORDER=0></A> </p>  <p align="center"><a href="http://MysticWords.zzn.com"><img src=" http://www.zzn.com/informail/images/but_service.gif" border="0" alt="ZZN Account"></a><a href="http://www.beseen.com/email/index.html"><img src="http://www.zzn.com/informail/images/but_ZapZone.gif" border="0" alt="ZZN Service"></a></p> </div> </body>