CHAPTER TEN
2:05 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
The Oval Office
The White House, Washington, DC
“I can’t believe we’re about to take this meeting,” Susan said.
She didn’t say what she thought inside: I want to wring Stone’s neck.
Instead, she looked at Kat Lopez, who was perched in a high-backed chair across the Oval Office sitting area from her. Kat looked fresh and relaxed. Like Kurt Kimball, Kat was an Energizer bunny—she just kept going and going and going.
“Give me the details,” Susan said.
“ARTS,” Kat said. “A Return To Sanity. More than thirty thousand members across the United States, and growing. Their headquarters are here in Washington, and they have a committed pool of donors across the United States, especially among wealthy people in the Bible Belt. They were founded and
