The Rise & Fall of Jenny Sky

Jenny leaves a broken home, then is forever determined no one else need go through the same.

Jennifer Scyler smiled at her reflection in the brass nameplate on his office door: Paul Wainsfeld, Director. She knew why she’d been called to her supervisor’s office. She was sure he’d say the promotion was hers. For the past year, she’d been on the fast track for agency advancement. When the previous Assistant Director suddenly retired for reasons Jennifer knew better than most, Paul had told in every way but words that the position would surely be hers. Although government regulations required a fair and impartial selection process, she was the perfect pick.

And now the waiting was over.

Boyfriends always told her she was too pretty to be an ordinary bureaucrat, but Jennifer knew her job at Child Protective Services was anything but ordinary. It was never necessary to explain much to them, however, since boyfriends lasted just long enough to provide for her temporary needs, especially as it related to her job.

Perfect posture and sable skin were two of the reasons she landed the job straight out of college five years ago. Mental toughness and the county’s quota system hadn’t hurt, either. Santa Barbara County had been short on minorities when she interviewed, but…