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Banker's Trust
Banker's Trust
Banker's Trust
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Rita Miller, an experienced banker in the quaint town of Shallotte, North Carolina, is now employed by a megabank that acquired the community bank where she had spent her decade-long career. Resentful of corporate assimilation and suspicious of her new co-workers, Rita is thrust into the thankless position of budgeting for the bank office where she unwittingly uncovers an insidious pattern of crime that predates the merger and potentially involves old and new co-workers. As Rita and her best friends slowly piece the crime together, the fear of discovery turns deadly as the criminals desperately try to cover up and destroy evidence of their fraud. At the same time, a chance encounter with Ross Moore, the new banks president, propels Rita into an intra-bank personal relationship she desires but has convinced herself is forbidden. As her perceptions of right and wrong, good and bad, and transparency and deception are challenged, Rita is forced to decide whether matters of the heart allow for forgiveness when the lines between them are blurred and trust is broken to protect the greater good. The story explores secrecy and confidentiality, honesty and forthrightness, and the resulting shades of gray that shape everyday decisions and interactions with friends, families and fellow employees.
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateMar 2, 2012
ISBN9781468524949
Banker's Trust
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Sabrina Stephens

Sabrina Stephens is a twenty-five-year veteran banker in Southeastern North Carolina. When she is not writing, she enjoys reading, hiking and boating. A graduate of Appalachian State University, she obtained her degree in English and served as the sports editor of her collegiate newspaper, The Appalachian. Stephens is a graduate of the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking held at the University of Pennsylvania and currently serves as the Senior Market Executive of the Coastal Region for North State Bank. She was born and raised in the Piedmont of North Carolina and is the middle child of the set of identical triplets. Stephens lives in Wilmington, NC with her two boys, Sam and Carl, and her husband of more than 20 years, Kent.

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