How would you feel if you lost the two most exasperating things in your life on the same day? What if you thought you couldn’t go on without either one?

To Love and To Work, a contemporary urban women’s novel by Tracie Clayton, begins as Roberta Rubin gets downsized from her miserable corporate job and parts with her incongruous boyfriend. Her consuming crush on a neighbor seems unrequited when she spots him coming out of his apartment early in the morning holding hands with a supermodel. Roberta’s job search goes badly when she rehashes the flaws of her previous employer during interviews.

If Roberta has a triumphant appearance on a television quiz show, she could be free of her financial concerns. She also feels hopeful when she meets a nice guy at a seminar. Then a temporary job as a personal assistant brings Roberta into the world of soap opera diva Barrie Rydell and her four pampered pooches. After averting a wardrobe crisis before The Daytime Glory Awards, Roberta considers a new career as far away from her original path as she could have imagined.

Will Roberta win the big money? Is the nice guy really nice? What about the hot neighbor? Will Roberta, Barrie and the dogs form a strong professional alliance?
  Tracie Clayton is a native of New York City. She left the corporate world to pursue her writing. Her short stories have appeared in The First Line and one of her pieces, “Hold the Cards and Flowers”, is featured in The Best of The First Line: The First Three Years.

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