Vancouver Post gossip columnist Nicole Charles is only slightly put out when she discovers she’s been downsized. She figures she’s lucky to still have a job. It just means she needs to get a desk so she can work out of her apartment. But the desk she buys at auction proves to have more history than she’d anticipated, and the cache she finds in a secret compartment in that desk has links to a money-laundering ring, and an old school-mate. Will this be the story that lands Nicole a job on the news desk? Even while she struggles to solve the case, she wonders if she’ll ever get the recognition she figures she deserves.
This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for older teen readers and adults who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!
Linda L. Richards is a journalist, photographer and author of 15 books, including Return From Extinction: The Triumph of the Elephant Seal in the Orca Wild series. She is the former publisher of Self-Counsel Press and the founder and publisher of January Magazine. Linda lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.