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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Beth Harbison<br />
attention of both people who want to fall out of love and people<br />
who want other such options.” Honestly, she couldn’t even believe<br />
she had to say this kind of thing with a straight face, but<br />
she did. This was her work, and this was an employee she was<br />
in charge of, doing a job she had created, so there was no out.<br />
“Got it.” Chelsea gave a nod. “But I still think you need a<br />
more exotic accent.”<br />
Prinny felt her shoulders sink. “No.”<br />
Chelsea reached up and twirled a fi n ger in her blond, beachwaved<br />
hair. “But people are calling for fortune- telling, gypsies,<br />
magic. They want something romantic! I use an accent just<br />
about every time I do a reading, and they love it.”<br />
“<strong>You</strong> do?” Readings were private. Fake as Prinny knew them<br />
to be, the party line was to give good, sound advice that anyone<br />
on any daytime talk show would give. Chelsea had been<br />
hired as the store gypsy because she could give those supposed<br />
readings with a straight face, but Prinny had had no idea she<br />
was trying out a variety of accents on clients. “What happens<br />
if people Yelp that they liked or hated the Irish psychic and<br />
someone else says the psychic is French? Or Spanish? Or Polish?<br />
Or what ever else you decide to be that day?” Lost revenues<br />
circling the drain whirled in her mind.<br />
“I keep track,” Chelsea said, waving the nothing away.<br />
“What, you don’t think I have notes on every one who comes<br />
to see me? Once I establish their issue— love, money, health,<br />
or family— all I have to do is nudge them and they spill it all<br />
and I rec ord it and write down all the names and situations to<br />
reference when they come back.” She gave a purposeful dra-
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