A famous actor wandering a dark city at night...a beautiful woman in a laundromat...and the forgotten scrap of silk that brings them together across thousands of miles and the even further distance of their two worlds. When Tom becomes obsessed with a beautiful stranger after stealing her underwear from a public laundromat, a dark and lonely journey into his own desires brings the emptiness of his celebrity lifestyle into focus for the first time. The only solution he can see is to find the woman who owns the panties he's been carrying in his pocket for the past year, but the distance between Tennessee and Switzerland, though daunting, isn't anywhere near as overwhelming as the distance between their lives. Has he even got a shot with the mystery woman after stealing her underwear? A fluffy bit of sentimental romance with a bit of dirty fantasy, told from the point of view of the superstar in love with a girl he may never see again.
A short story by the author of The King's Heart, The McClary Chronicles, Chemical, and Body Double!