Exploring a ruin in pursuit of secrets left behind by her ancient self, Gina encounters what appears to be a hostile energy being. She recognizes it as an ancient, degraded A.I. defense program, and her heart goes out to this long-abandoned "guard dog." But the old "dog" is wary after millennia of fending off invaders, and it might just bite Gina badly before she can help it!

As she prepares to leave the Riddle Rifts, Gina spots a mundane portal... an extremely mundane portal. Too mundane. And that makes it very interesting! Infiltrating the pleasant-yet-slightly-weird realm on its other side, Gina confronts an opponent she never expected, one who just might test her very limits. Can she hope to overcome the intricate machinations of... Professor Peter von Fluffernums?!

Describes the life of glamour girl Peggy Hopkins Joyce, whose many marriages, expensive tastes, and wild lifestyle made her more famous in the 1920s and '30s than her stints as a Broadway and movie star.

Still aiding Monty in his quest to help make Ayane safe from her curse, Gina enters the Riddle Rift, a series of hyper-connected dimensions. As the only person known who can read the draconic glyphs on the Rift's portals, only she can pass through them. However, that means she's working alone when she attracts the attention of a dangerous wandering deity... or three!

The stereotype of the "gold digger" has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband. The term entered American vernacular in the 1910s as women began to assert greater power over courtship, marriage, and finances, threatening men's control of legal and economic structures. Over the course of the century, the gold digger stereotype reappeared as women pressed for further control over love, sex, and money while laws failed to keep pace with such realignments. The gold digger can be seen in silent films, vaudeville jokes, hip hop lyrics, and reality television. Whether feared, admired, or desired, the figure of the gold digger appears almost everywhere gender, sexuality, class, and race collide. This fascinating interdisciplinary work reveals the assumptions and disputes around women's sexual agency in American life, shedding new light on the cultural and legal forces underpinning romantic, sexual, and marital relationships.