chapter oneTHE READING OF THE WILL

Doug Roman was not in the mood for stop-and-go traffic.

“Obnoxious music,” he snapped as he poked one of the buttons on the dash panel. The perfectly balanced sound of his custom audio system immediately replaced the cackling broadcast.

“Calm down, Doug,” he told himself. “You’ve got plenty of time.”

The reading of Nan’s will was set for ten o’clock; by noon he would be the new CEO of Mooseland Stoneware. His aunt Nan had been more than an intelligent woman and the influential founder and CEO of Moose-land, the most prestigious stoneware company in the world. She had also been the single most important person in his life.

Doug glanced at his reflection in the rearview mirror.

“You’ve grown up to be a very handsome ...

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