title: Ascent of the Immortal
author: Ann Marie Knapp
description: <DIV>Dr. Kelley Kline, writing under the pseudonym Ann Marie Knapp, is originally from the Northeast and graduated with her PhD in experimental psychology with a concentration in biopsychology (neuroscience) from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1998. Dr. Kline has experience teaching at four major universities, has been a full-time faculty member at Florida State University in Panama City for the past eight years, and continues to teach and conduct research full time. Ascent of the Immortal, her debut novel, combines her knowledge of personality dynamics and criminal psychopathology with the paranormal and vampires.</DIV>
zlib_text: by Piers Anthony
  Incarnations of Immortality - Book 7
  Chapter 1 - ORLENE
  Jolie was in France when she felt the pain. Someone close to her was dying!
  She was conducting a routine observation, animating a servant girl in the house of the man she was
  studying. She had to extricate herself in a hurry-but not in such a way as to alienate her host.
  Please, Marie-something pressing has come up. May I leave you for a time?
  The girl was startled. "You will return?" she asked in French. She enjoyed their association, because she
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  was dull and Jolie was bright. When Jolie animated her, she carried herself with greater flair and was
  more alert, and her employer liked that. There was nothing untoward in this, and the employer had no
  designs on Marie; he merely liked to think that his relatively egalitarian household was good 