Keep Calm and Carry a Big Drink (40 page)

KIM GRUENENFELDER
lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son, and continues to avoid anything even remotely resembling a real job. In addition to her books, including
A Total Waste of Makeup, Misery Loves Cabernet,
and
There’s Cake in My Future,
she has written feature films, episodic teleplays, and two stage plays.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

KEEP CALM AND CARRY A BIG DRINK.
Copyright © 2013 by Kim Gruenenfelder. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.stmartins.com

Cover design by Kerri Resnick

Cover illustration by Pepper Tharp

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Gruenenfelder-Smith, Kim.

   Keep calm and carry a big drink / Kim Gruenenfelder. — 1st. ed.

           p. cm

   ISBN 978-1-250-00504-5 (trade paperback)

   ISBN 978-1-250-02491-6 (e-book)

 1.  Female friendship—Fiction.   2.  Magic—Fiction.   I.  Title.

   PS3607.R72K44 2013

   813'.6—dc23                                           2013026246

e-ISBN 9781250024916

First Edition: December 2013