Chapter Twenty-Three

When the staff returned to the conference room, Anna felt an uncomfortable chill in the air, which was not caused by a faulty thermostat. She immediately knew by the tentative looks they were being thrown her way, the topic of the conversation discussed during the fifteen minute reprieve was all about Anna’s odd behavior concerning Vashti’s Daughter and its author.

            Anna was thankful none of her staff asked her the questions each of them no doubt had on their minds, because she honestly didn’t have any logical answers she would have been able to give them that would have not led to more questions. She hadn’t a clue why she was so adamant about publishing Nate’s book. At pitch meetings in the past, her gut feeling about whether to publish a new title and an unknown author was usually supported by most of her editors. More often than not, her instincts had been right on the mark, but