Chapter 1: Introduction
The office was bustling with the usual Monday morning chatter, but Laura kept her head down, squinting at the spreadsheet on her laptop screen. She was a woman with a mission, and that mission was to ignore the fact that she'd been up all night tossing and turning, haunted by dreams of her husband's infidelity. Again.
"Morning, Lozzie!" Mel's chirpy voice cut through the hum of the open-plan office. She plopped down in the chair next to Laura, her blonde curls bouncing with each syllable. "You look like you've seen a ghost.