As she walked into the party, she looked around and realized that she didn’t know a soul there. There was a hosted bar, and she went up and ordered a margarita. She moved away from the bar and saw a group of people enjoying their drinks and meeting one another so she joined them. She introduced herself and met six other people attending the conference. A few had arrived a little earlier than Janice and looked like they ha...

Chapter 2 – Arrival She finished her cigarette and entered the terminal. The flight was uneventful and she landed in Denver about 1 pm. She rented a car and found her way to the hotel. The conference was scheduled to start with an icebreaker that evening. Just before she pulled into the hotel parking lot, she spotted a convenience store and on a whim, pulled in to buy a pack of cigarettes. She was a little nervous as she...

Chapter 1 – Preparation Janice was very excited. She was going to get to go to a conference in Denver by herself. It was the first time she would be away from her husband and children since she had been married five years ago. It’s not that she wasn’t happy – she was. It was just she was missing some of the excitement in her life that had been there before she had settled into marriage and children. She loved her husband...