DarK

PROLOGUE

The sex is not until later chapters. If you are reading this for instant gratification, I
suggest choosing something else.
Just a couple of quick notes. Geoff is not pronounced Jeff, but "J (like the begining of
Jeff) off". (Aunt Catherine thought Jeff was too peon-ish). LAFA is one of those
acronoms that is said as a word. la FA (with the inflection and stress on Fa), as in the
music notes, and it stands for the London Association of Financial Advisors.

Fitzwilliam Geoff Darcy III, of the reclusive LAFA Darcys, was extremely successful. So
was his alter ego, Geoff Williams, lyricist, lead singer, and bass guitar for the pop band
DarK. Although both were quite famous, no one ever made the connection between the
two. It was helpful, of course, that the financial bigwigs and DarK fans didn’t run in quite
the same circles. But, never one to leave anything to chance, Geoff never gave television
interviews, and the only DarK memorabilia that carried his image were the album covers,
which always featured him standing behind his other two band mates, Char Daniels, lead
guitarist, and George Anthony, drummer.
Neither Char nor George thought this was strange, for they were also not known by their
real names. No one in their right mind would listen to a band made up of Europe's best
financial advisor, the only son of London bank tycoon Robert Emerton Bingley, and one
of the youngest members of the House of Lords. So in order to be taken seriously,
Fitzwilliam Geoff Darcy, Charles Daniel Bingley, and George Anthony Wickham all got
creative with their given names and created a European pop sensation that was set to take
the rest of the world by storm.