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Joe Peterson by: Jennifer Clark Evans

Joe works hard everyday. Smiling and pleasing everyone around him. Even though he doesn't feel like smiling or pleasing anyone at all. On the outside he is picture-perfect, a well groomed man of forty-five, who lives and toils at the people's capitol. On the inside he's scared that anyone else will discover his secret. The one that shattered a life and would destroy his career. His life is a deck of stacked cards waiting to fall if the slightest wind blows through this high-powered town to question this high-powered man about a past that isn't buried and will soon be discovered by someone with dark glasses who lurks in the shadows watching the most important press conference of old Peterson's soon-to-topple career.