Chapter 10

            It was New Year’s Eve, and Jessica was filled with hope for a promising and prosperous New Year. The Biannual Ladybirds’ Art Show was being held in the Lennox Tower in Manhattan. The view was fantastic. Fireworks could be seen from the floor they were on. The room was huge. The temporary walls that had paintings and photographs on them were set up like a maze.

            The Ladybirds was a charity organization filled with high-society matrons and country club members. They hosted art shows twice a year to support local artists. The art coordinator had heard of Jessica and found out she was in New York. He invited her to make her New York debut at the New Year’s showing.

            Jessica had jumped at the opportunity because she wasn’t expecting to be part of an art s