The owners of the comic book store where she had spent too many hours while growing up decided to retire and Victoria had been in the right place at the right time. After that, everything seemed to fall into place and her dream of being self-employed was coming true a few years ahead of schedule. She was twenty-four and she had employees. How cool was that? My Romance had been her brainchild since she was a teenager and while she had to work long, long hours and she owed the bank a lot of money, she wouldn’t have it any other way. Marnie Connolly was someone whom Victoria met during college. They had bonded when they realized they grew up not ten minutes away from one another and knew several of the same people, often laughing that it took being two thousand miles away from home for them to meet. Marnie spent as many hours at the store as possible, but with a young son, she couldn’t be there every day. Her other “employee”
