One Less Problem without You - Excerpt
Meet Prinny, Chelsea and Diana. Prinny is the owner of Cosmos, a shop that sells crystals, potions, candles, and hope. It’s also a place where no one turns down a little extra-special cocktail that can work as a romance potion or heal a broken heart. But Prinny is in love with her married lawyer and she’ll need nothing short of magic to forget about him. Chelsea works as a living statue at tourist sites around Washington, DC. It's a thankless job, but it helps pay the rent. That, and her part-time job at Cosmos. As her dream of becoming a successful actress starts to seem more remote and the possibility of being a permanently struggling one seems more realistic, Chelsea begins to wonder: at one point do you give up on your dreams? And will love ever be in the cards for her? Diana Tiesman is married to Leif, a charismatic man who isn’t faithful. But no matter how many times he lets her down, Diana just can't let him go. She knows the only way she can truly breakaway is if she leaves and goes where he will never think to follow. So she ends up at Cosmos with Leif’s stepsister, where she makes her homemade teas and tinctures as she figures out whether she'd rather be lonely alone than lonely in love. In One Less Problem Without You, three women suddenly find themselves together at their own very different crossroads. It will take hope, love, strength and a little bit of magic for them to find their way together.
Meet Prinny, Chelsea and Diana. Prinny is the owner of Cosmos, a shop that sells crystals, potions, candles, and hope. It’s also a place where no one turns down a little extra-special cocktail that can work as a romance potion or heal a broken heart. But Prinny is in love with her married lawyer and she’ll need nothing short of magic to forget about him.
Chelsea works as a living statue at tourist sites around Washington, DC. It's a thankless job, but it helps pay the rent. That, and her part-time job at Cosmos. As her dream of becoming a successful actress starts to seem more remote and the possibility of being a permanently struggling one seems more realistic, Chelsea begins to wonder: at one point do you give up on your dreams? And will love ever be in the cards for her?
Diana Tiesman is married to Leif, a charismatic man who isn’t faithful. But no matter how many times he lets her down, Diana just can't let him go. She knows the only way she can truly breakaway is if she leaves and goes where he will never think to follow. So she ends up at Cosmos with Leif’s stepsister, where she makes her homemade teas and tinctures as she figures out whether she'd rather be lonely alone than lonely in love.
In One Less Problem Without You, three women suddenly find themselves together at their own very different crossroads. It will take hope, love, strength and a little bit of magic for them to find their way together.
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<strong>One</strong> <strong>Less</strong> <strong>Problem</strong> Without <strong>You</strong> 77<br />
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tral female accent, “to fall out of love.” She looked to Prinny<br />
with an eyebrow raised.<br />
Prinny nodded. “I think that’s good.”<br />
Chelsea sighed. “I know what he wants. I don’t think it’s<br />
going to do much to bring in business, but I get what you’re<br />
saying. All right. So is there anything else?”<br />
“I think you need to say the option fi rst. To give them an<br />
idea of what they’re here for. <strong>You</strong> know?”<br />
“No.”<br />
“To fall out of love, press one.”<br />
“What difference could that possibly make?”<br />
A normal employee would never be this diffi cult. An actress?<br />
Virtually every interaction went like this. But the store<br />
needed her there to play the role of a safe, reliable psychic: one<br />
that would read the cards accurately—as Prinny had taught<br />
her— then let the clients come up with their own answers and<br />
never advise anything objectionable.<br />
<strong>One</strong> didn’t need to be psychic, per se, to read cards. The cards<br />
told the story whether the person could intuit anything further<br />
or not. So the reason she’d hired Chelsea was to read well<br />
and deliver advice convincingly and in a comforting manner.<br />
With fate being as flexible as it was, it was impor tant to let<br />
people make their choices clearly.<br />
Chelsea kept her eyes on Prinny, waiting for an answer.<br />
“A lot of people would just hang up after hearing ‘press<br />
one’ because every day we get that with our banks or our utility<br />
companies or what ever other drudgery we have to deal with,<br />
you know? So ‘press one’ sounds like you’re being rerouted,<br />
whereas starting with ‘to fall out of love’ immediately grabs the
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