Automation is nothing new to industry. It has a long tradition on the factory floor, where its constant objective has been to increase the productivity of manufacturing processes. Only with the advent of computers could the focus of automation widen to include administrative and information-handling tasks. More recently, automation has been extended to the more intellectual tasks of production planning and control, material and resource planning, engineering design, and quality control. New challenges arise in the form of flexible manu facturing, assembly automation, and automated floor vehicles, to name just a few. The sheer complexity of the problems as well as the state of the art has led scientists and engineers to concentrate on issues that could easily be isolated. For example, it was much simpler to build CAD systems whose sole objective was to ease the task of drawing, rather than to worry at the same time about how the design results could be interfaced with the manufacturing or assembly processes. It was less problematic to gather statistics from quality control and to print reports than to react immediately to first hints of irregularities by inter facing with the designers or manufacturing control, or, even better, by auto matically diagnosing the causes from the design and planning data. A heav- though perhaps unavoidable - price must today be paid whenever one tries to assemble these isolated solutions into a larger, integrated system."

Brianna and the Lieutenant take trip to the Rutherford Plantation in Fredericksburg, Virginia. While they are there they expose a horrifying secrets of rape, torture and neglect that has taken place down the hill. Back in Williamsburg, a former disgruntled lover from the Lieutenant's past wants revenge against him, his wife and unborn child. She has a contract put out on them and the assassin waits for their return. But little does she know is that he too was plotting to kill the Lieutenant. As for Brianna he has different plans for her. He too had a vendetta against the Lieutenant and murdering him was already part of his plan. But he had different plans for Brianna. He had been secretly in love with her and now he would make her his. The saga continues in part three of the trilogy. A Conspiracy for Love

Automation is nothing new to industry. It has a long tradition on the factory floor, where its constant objective has been to increase the productivity of manufacturing processes. Only with the advent of computers could the focus of automation widen to include administrative and information-handling tasks. More recently, automation has been extended to the more intellectual tasks of production planning and control, material and resource planning, engineering design, and quality control. New challenges arise in the form of flexible manu facturing, assembly automation, and automated floor vehicles, to name just a few. The sheer complexity of the problems as well as the state of the art has led scientists and engineers to concentrate on issues that could easily be isolated. For example, it was much simpler to build CAD systems whose sole objective was to ease the task of drawing, rather than to worry at the same time about how the design results could be interfaced with the manufacturing or assembly processes. It was less problematic to gather statistics from quality control and to print reports than to react immediately to first hints of irregularities by inter facing with the designers or manufacturing control, or, even better, by auto matically diagnosing the causes from the design and planning data. A heav- though perhaps unavoidable - price must today be paid whenever one tries to assemble these isolated solutions into a larger, integrated system.

Brianna and the Lieutenant take trip to the Rutherford Plantation in Fredericksburg, Virginia. While they are there they expose a horrifying secrets of rape, torture and neglect that has taken place down the hill. Back in Williamsburg, a former disgruntled lover from the Lieutenant's past wants revenge against him, his wife and unborn child. She has a contract put out on them and the assassin waits for their return. But little does she know is that he too was plotting to kill the Lieutenant. As for Brianna he has different plans for her. He too had a vendetta against the Lieutenant and murdering him was already part of his plan. But he had different plans for Brianna. He had been secretly in love with her and now he would make her his. The saga continues in part three of the trilogy. A Conspiracy for Love