Thanks for the review! I did consider some kind of kidnap plotline but didn't write it because I thought it was the same thing over again. The kidnapper is still in the story, and it's about the point I'm up to writing right now, so I am thinking of expanding it again; in fact I've started to write some of this. It's allowing a resolution that I really like. So maybe there will be something like this upcoming somewhere.  As for Stuart, he was resized before the epilogue. I didn't plan for him to have a bigger role beyond the first story.