Beginner's Luck
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Charlotte Tessau is quite possibly the most unlucky person in the world. She's stopped counting the cups of spilt coffee, losing lottery tickets and missed busses. She's almost ready to give up on her career dreams when she gets denied a career-advancing opportunity until spills coffee onto a bystander one afternoon.
The next day she wakes up to a mysterious package on her doorstep and her luck seems to have changed overnight. She's glad until she realises that some things are getting better for her, while other things seem to be getting worse.
Armed with her best friend, a determination to take control of her fate and the looming threat of crippling debt, she sets out to find the mysterious gift-giver and finds more than what she bargained for along the way.
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