The Switch: A Short Story

By Linda Johnson

Michael came from old money, but when he married Rita, his parents disapproved and cut him off from the family wealth. With his beautiful wife and their three children, Michael never regrets what he lost -- until Rita is diagnosed with breast cancer and he doesn’t have the health insurance to cover her care.

Michael hatches a desperate plan to fund Rita’s life-saving treatments and exact revenge against his family.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Linda Johnson
• Release date: Nov 3, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301327294

Linda Johnson

Linda is a healer living in the English countryside and works with both people and animals helping them each on their individual journey. Animals have always been a big source of love and support to her in a life that, as for most people, has had challenges along the way, and she gets much happiness now from being able to help animals in return, especially horses. Linda is also looking forward to working with animals and children together to encourage children’s appreciation of the natural world and to give them the opportunity to discover that animals can be our teachers and guides and that they are connected to us all. www.thehavenofhope.co.uk

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The Switch - A Short Story

Linda Johnson

The Switch – A Short Story

Linda Johnson

Copyright 2012 by Linda Johnson

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

To say I was born with the proverbial silver spoon in my mouth would be an understatement. More like a fourteen karat gold spoon embedded with diamonds. I came from the oldest of old money. My great-great-grandfather made his fortune in railroads. My great-grandfather started an institutional investment firm managing pension funds for large cap companies. My grandfather took over the firm when his father retired; my father took over when my grandfather died. As the only child born to my parents, my career path was preordained before I pushed my way out of my mother’s womb. Except that I veered off-course.

Not initially though. For the first part of my life, I marched along the straight and narrow path my parents had plotted out for me like an obedient soldier. I grew up with the rest of the old money families in the Hamptons, attended private schools, and entered Harvard to earn my bachelor’s degree in finance and then an MBA.