Surrendering her life to copywriting for the biotech wing of a multinational corporation was not what Eliza Latimer had had in mind for herself when she graduated from college with a degree in English. Seized by a sudden impulse to defy her fate, she sends a series of incendiary e-mails to the higher echelons of the company. Eliza is certain that she will be fired. But, why would a huge corporation like Monte Salute bring one of its lowliest employees upstate to meet the gorgeous sole heir and owner, if he was just going to fire her? Alessandro Neroni has a secret that Eliza is about to find out. But, she has a secret of her own.
On the other side of the country, Nick Assenzio was working with a team of physicists on the verge of a revolutionary break-through. His life is plunged into disarray when he is implicated in a terrorist plot and must run from a fate worse than death. With his world turned completely upside down, Nick must ally himself with an alcoholic, chain-smoking, semi-immortal magician named Beau.
How will a shadowy religious cabal, an extradimensional bar, the scientific manifestation of hell, werewolves, vampires, and things that go bump in the night eventually weave the fabric Eliza's destiny to Nick's? Who will survive? Can they, along with their unlikely allies, save the world from the Pandemonium Dream? Drink Deeply is created by Emile Bienert, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

Drink Deeply

Eliza had only been to Chicago once in her life, and she didn’t really remember it. A cousin had gotten married and her family had tried to take in the entire Windy City over the course of a long weekend. She was six at the time. This trip, if it could be called a trip, was much, much different.


She was already a bit angry with Alessandro, as she’d only seen him twice since they had slept together. He hadn’t even been at breakfast; Ms. Veselsky had briefed and quizzed her on a few things to see how quickly she could come up with backstory and stay true to what she’d been told. An ingratiatingly nice chef had served breakfast, tofu scramble in the form of eggs benedict, complete with some manner of vegan hollandaise sauce. It was delicious, but she had barely been able to enjoy it, as she wolfed down information and tried to hit the verbal stepping stones that Ms. Veselsky was providing. She gave helpful feedback, but everything was happening very quickly:


Chapter 29: Courting Disaster