Scarlet Rye: A Magnum Novel

Prologue

1,770, 851 people, 2,000 jobs, 1,065 cabs, 136 skyscrapers, 50 mansions, and 4 boroughs reside in Magnum City. A city where people have three choices: To live, to work,...or to die. And the one person who fits in the working category is no one other than Scarlet Rye. A young woman of patience, pity, and pennies. She gets up precisely at 7:00 a.m., out the door at 7:30, at Starbucks at 7:36, and up on 300th floor of the biggest fashion agency of the United States. Gugu's Fashion at 8:10 clocking in by 8:15 sharp. Scarlet never misses a second of time. Her footsteps, the animation of her body, even the grit of her teeth moves at specific times. Already equipped with a college degree from the University of Magnum, she can get any job. Including just doing what she wants to do like working at Gugu's Fashion. Having a job that gives her a good paycheck and money from her bank account (from years and years of saving), she has the perfect life (or so she thought).