Chapter Two
You’ve Got Mail
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
KAT
Tampa, Florida
Present Day
“Laney!” I called out to my secretary. “Can you come in here, please?”
“Yeah, sure,” she shouted back. Our office space was so small it was as if she had yelled it in my ear.
Casual was too strict a word for our laid-back office environment, and though we’d made a few changes in personnel—fired a fast-talking typist with no real experience and brought in a few new journalists, our ten-person team was a small publishing titan. Two years had brought us a series of ups and downs, and around year three, we were on our way up in the world, making waves in the little publishing pond that was Tampa, Florida.
Home of the Buccaneers… and some of the most back-s
