You readers have been treating me like an NPC for the past 200 pages, but bwah-ha-ha-ha, let me now remove my mask, terrify the other characters, and (I hope), you.
It’s one thing when the good guys have to deal with a villain who keeps changing plans and finding new ways to cause trouble, but it’s an entirely different thing when the villains do a bait-and-switch, or the worst villain kills the mid-level villain who’s been running the plot up until this point.
Face the Night If Catriona’s revenge plot is successful in taking down Baron William Caldwell, that would set up some complications for the romantic plot, in which her love interest is Caldwell’s son, Adrian. But as it turns out, William Caldwell has more enemies than you think…