Chapter 6
New York
A Month Ago
Madeline raised the cup of coffee to her lips and found that it was empty. She had lost track of how many cups she'd had today, so she refrained from making another one, even if it might help her finish the article.
She knew it was a timely piece. She knew the magazine needed it yesterday. But quality mattered, and she wasn't going to rush to meet the deadline and compromise the integrity of her work.
She pushed the empty cup aside and leaned back in her uncomfortable chair. Like everything else in the office, furniture and computing were kept at bare essentials. The Trumpet was a young magazine with a small readership. Paul Raymond, her editor in chief, didn’t want to rely on advertising for extra revenue.
Advertising for companies he considered an ill
