A Prior time in a prior tome of the Black Forest. The time now has become present day Seattle. A beautiful young ballerina develops uncertainties about her lover and master choreographer, Marius. In her search of his fidelity to her, she journeys fearfully and far. There is much mystery that propels her forward. She has allies who, though afraid themselves, assist in the discovery of one and then another lost tome. The accident of each lost tome found reveals so much! Clearly, Amanda, the brave and beautiful ballerina is rarely prepared for the unraveling; the truth of her Marius. As her search rips open the curtain hiding his monstrous secrets, danger pulsates. And what of Marius' reaction? He must protect himself aggressively even against the one he openly loves. His breadth goes wide though and his cruelty to protect himself is not infinite. So does he choose himself, Amanda, or something totally unforeseen in the beginning? Strangely, oddly, lethally presumed in all of his acts, he is not that. His predatory nature has a tender underbelly hardly expected. What also of those left suspended in the first tale, the tale Amanda is seeking to discover and eventually finds; a shadow world of awe and horror to her? What is their fate? How real are they? Ambivalence vibrates throughout the epic tale. Murder, fantastical possibilities, clarion calls unheard, and twists turning on a dime spin page after page. The intricacies are many, the fears are vast and the echoes of significance repeat without end. Not a reader of Lethal Presumed will regret that decision to be drawn in as horrifically, as deeply, as is the prima ballerina herself.