Just a few more painful steps to freedom. I kept a smile plastered to my face as I tottered to the valet stand in the one pair of...

“Mr. Chambers, there’s an important call for you on line one,” my secretary called out the moment I emerged from my office. I hustled...

Chef Ribauld sneered at the plate I set under the warmer and rotated it like it might look better from another angle. He scraped away...

I jerked awake, head throbbing and eyes glued together, when a knock sounded on my door. Or at least, I thought it was my door. I wasn’t...

“C’mon, c’mon, c’mon!” I urged my sputtering car to make the last few yards into the gas station parking lot. It died about five feet...

“You and Brendan have to come over tonight, Tessa. I have something urgent I need to talk to you two about. ASAP.” I rolled my eyes,...

The blue-haired, old woman in the floral, polyester dress across the street curled her thin lips in a sneer at the sign in front of me...

I knew it was over when the woman in the cream silk pantsuit that cost more than I usually made in a month swirled her wineglass full of...