Your Author will present Book Two first, maybe as the only part of this work presented. The main reason is that Book One doesn't belong in this milieu, it belongs on Erotic Stories, or Literotica. It might wind up there, but at 200 pages, ti might be too long to serialize in their formats. My best writing is in Book Two anyway, and at 500 pages, it is long enough to hold the readers' attention for a while.
Here, below the fold, is the Prologue and Cast of Characters.
“Miracles at Mountain View”
Book Two
The Mountain View Estate is a upper-class adult playground in the West Texas Hill Country. As it was conceived and birthed, it ran on a Feudal model, with Castes performing all the functions of providing pleasures to the “haves” who paid for them. The Castes run from the Master of the Estate, down through Operations Management, to Maids and Servers delivering those pleasures, to Slaves, those who were cast down from higher levels for failing the strict discipline code of the Estate.
Changes occur as the Estate has a personnel shortage, and has to recruit new talent from among the local population. Some bright young people are recruited, and as they resist the Feudal administration, change begins to occur. The Master raises up a former Submissive Slave, Keisha, who is a racially-mixed Native American and a Spirit-Adept of the First Order, and using her superior talent for reading the Human Spirit, she advances to co-equal in command, ending top-down management, and ushering in major expansion and recruiting of even better talent, while enduring constant conflict as she ends the Master’s predation on her. Through her, we look at other women to see their successes or failures in elevating themselves.
Mountain View goes through two distinct phase changes, and we look at feudalism vs. modern management theory in practice, rejection of old models of racial exploitation and introduction of modern engineering and Information Technology and Security, but the “improvements” come at a cost of the acceptance of Eugenics.
This novel examines People in all their phases of personality, all their strengths and weaknesses, and how proper interpretation of the Human Spirit can give advantages in all phases of personnel management in the corporate setting. It also examines First Nations culture and how that culture has both held it’s course and also adapted to follow-on cultures.
The novel also examines several technologies in detail: military/war, cyber, aviation and medicine, as well as music & FOOD!
Book Two, examined first because it’s the best writing and story development, get heavily into the Third World War scenario I develop. It looks at how people adjust to war, and how war changes them.
Mountain View Estate, Inc, succeeds in the end because it has a Corporate understanding of human frailty and desire and accommodates all phases of that desire from all sides of the Human Spirit.
Is “Miracles at Mountain View” a “page-turner”? Is it a “romance novel”? Is it a War Story? You will be the judge, so order your black robes, sit on your high bench, and hear this case. It WILL set precedent for you in understanding the Human Condition.
Cast of Characters – Book Two
The Admiral: Admiral of the Fleet, Retired, Robert Radley. Wears numerous other hats, is the Hero.
The Master: Owner of Mountain View Estate. Sole owner. Brilliant mind, does NOT always use it for good. Is the anti-hero.
The Mistress (Keisha): Wasn’t always co-equal to the Master, but started out as a Slave. Used her strong sense & control of the Human Spirit to make her way out of servitude and to the top.
Hubert Meyer: Was Master’s #2 in Book one, but to start Book two, he dies and is only known thereafter by his leftover works and the marvelous computer system he built to run the Estate with.
Mary Kruger: Starts as a Maid, screws up because of her alcohol addiction, is busted to Slave in Book One, but by Book Two, has risen from the ashes like a Phoenix, and becomes the financial wizard.
Hostesses: Hostesses, who would be the Madams in ordinary brothels, get to their positions via their supervisory skills. Book One has several, but in Book Two, that stabilizes to Bobbie.
Stephanie: Opens Book One with her paramour, Trucker Mark, leads a somewhat wretched life to start, but becomes a business whiz in Book Two.
Mark: A classic stud-type. Quick on his feet and with his mind, he is developed by Master as Chief Stud, but has a mean streak.
Maids: Maids keep their assigned Suites in perfect order and their assigned Guests in BETTER order, providing any and all human pleasures. Mountain View operates with up to nine Maids in Book Two, an increase from five at the start of Book One. Some are queer. One queer, Barbara, has major musical talent.
Slaves: In Book One, we see the original feudal Administration of Mountain View Estate. There are Slaves, mostly to act as a correctional position for Maids who have somehow failed to meet the expectations of their Hostess or Master. The Administration abandons the feudal model in Book Two, and with it, the Slave designations.
Medical: The estate has it’s own Medical staff. In Book One it was just Doctor Mike Mannion, a full-time ER Doc, assisted by an LPN/Maid, Maria Alvarez. In Book Two, the enlarged Staff brings a requirement for a full-time Nurse, so Doc Mannion goes out and marries one, Scotty McDougal. The Medical Staff are heroes of the novel.
Chefs: A high-end Estate is not complete without gourmet food. Mountain View starts with a good Chef, but her predatory lesbian habits lead her astray and she is replaced by an ex-Navy chef/steward who used to work for the Admiral. The Chef has Staff, and along the way, the intricate workings of gourmet kitchens and food are examined in great detail.
Security: In Book Two, the expanded Estate requires full-time security, and hires the former Sheriff of the County, David Stufflebean. He brings a strong cyber-security team with him, and the leader of that team, a complex young woman named Isabella Bolivar, has roles as war-hero AND super-villain. Security Director also has two children and we look at the delicate matter of teens growing up in that sort of environment.
The Computer: The computer, in Book Two named Hubert in honor of the departed #2, is a highly-AI setup which follows all computing and communications commands by voice, and also identifies users by the most advanced biometrics. It is encrypted by a cutting-edge system using variable byte structure, or Digitally-Adaptive-Technology, which becomes involved in a key role in the war.
The War: Many surprises, as many as my 50-years of military service and observation can bring you. The technology and methods of the units at war are as realistic as I can make them. My model for this part of the novel is, of course, Tom Clancy.