The Fantasy Maker
There were modern novels, too, including Stephen King and Sidney Sheldon, but they didn't look as well read as some of the others.
Dante moved up behind her and gripped her shoulders, kneading them gently just as her fingers tripped over a copy of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy.
"You read a lot."
"I do," he said.
She slipped her fingers onto the shelf surface, her fingers making a mark in the thin layer of dust there. Just as she began to turn, she noticed another mark in the dust, as though something normally sat there but had been moved.
"Why don't you," he began, pushing her back against the shelf, making it teeter slightly, "go take off some of these clothes while I change the sheet