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    The View from the Top
    The View from the Top
    The View from the Top
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    The View from the Top

    By T. L. Ingham

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    Regina Ridgeway has everything Frances ever wanted: a magnificent home, exotic vacations, designer clothing and fancy jewelry. She has money to burn while Frances is forced to toil away in her beauty shop catering to the whims of Mrs. Ridgeway and the rest of her snobby friends. (Not to mention picking their pockets when no one is looking.) And then one day everything changes. After Mrs. Ridgeway single-handedly causes more than a thousand dollars worth of damage in Frances' shop, repairs Frances could never afford to make, Frances, nearing her breaking point, plans to take her petty larceny to new heights and gets something she never bargained for in the process.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherT. L. Ingham
    Release dateJul 5, 2012
    ISBN9781476185767
    The View from the Top
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    T. L. Ingham

    About the Author:T. L. Ingham was born and raised in upstate New York, before living short stints in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Illinois, and then finally, Indiana where she lives today, residing with her husband and their two dogs. She can be reached at http://www.facebook.com/tl.ingham.1

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      The View from the Top - T. L. Ingham

      The View from the Top

      By T. L. Ingham

      To Brittany: thank you for always having a clear view!

      The View from the Top

      Published By T. L. Ingham at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Tammy L. Ingham

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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      Frances carefully set the old English teapot on the mahogany table, straightening the lace doily as she did. She turned back to the marble countertop and began wiping it down, polishing it to a proud gleam.

      Proud, that’s what she was, proud. She could not have been more proud of her beautiful home if she tried. A home filled to the brim with so many gloriously expensive things. Things that she had never imagined she could own. Things that she’d spent a lifetime coveting. Fervently.

      She pulled back the dining chair and sat waiting for the tea, her mind wandering back, as it so often did, to the life she used to live. It seemed so long ago, though it had only been a few months since her luck had turned for the better, and now she was living a dream instead of surviving the nightmare than had been her previous existence.

      Most people probably made the assumption that she had hit the lottery, but that was of little concern to her. She didn't feel the need to answer their questions, should they have ever come to ask her. Though no one ever did. In fact, even her old friends failed to act even the slightest bit curious about where her good fortune had come from; she hadn't had a visit from any one of them. Which was just fine by her; it was all too difficult to explain anyway. But if their lack of visitation was any sign, they were teeming with envy. Another thing that was just fine by her. After years of stewing in her own envy, let them have a taste.

      It had been almost three months to the day that her life had changed so drastically. There she had been sweeping the floor in her small beauty shop, a daily drudgery there was no

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