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To: Kate Mackenzie

Fr: Tony Salerno

Re: Ida Lopez

Hi, Kate. You don’t know me, I’m married to Nadine Wilcock, you know, the food critic over there at the Journal ?

Anyway, I own the restaurant Fresche—you might have heard of it. I’m also Ida Lopez’s new boss. Yeah, that’s right. Nadine told me all about Mrs. Lopez and her chocolate chip cookies and all, so I did a little investigating, and well . . . she’s my new pastry chef. No offense, but I pay her a lot more than you guys did, so I can see why she might not want to leave. Have you ever tasted her blueberry blintzes? Mind-blowing.

So, anyway, looks like your loss is our gain . . . but it’s Ida’s gain, too.

And you can tell all those ravenous New York Journal -ists that if they miss Ida’s home cooking, they can just come on over to Fresche anytime they want!

Best,

Tony Salerno

Owner/master chef

Fresche

To: Margaret Hertzog Stuart Hertzog Stacy Trent Mitchell Hertzog Janice Hertzog

Fr: Arthur Hertzog

Re: All of you

Just a quick note to say there seems to be some kind of misunderstanding concerning my whereabouts. I am not, as many of you seem to believe, on my way back to New York. The fellas and I are on our way to Pebble Beach, to try our hand at the most challenging course known to man.

I can see how this information might be upsetting to some of you. However, I had a near death experience a year ago, and it taught me one thing: Don’t waste your time on stupid shit. And frankly, all I seem to hear from some of you people is stupid shit.

Stuart, you could have a lot worse things wrong with you than the fact that you’re a carrier for a disease that you’ll never actually have. I heard you’re engaged to that girl you brought home for Thanksgiving dinner. Mazel tov. Tell her to eat more, she’s too skinny.

As for your problems with your brother, I have a feeling that those will soon be alleviated: I just got off the phone with Mitch, who has informed me that he has had enough with corporate law. He’s returning to his position as a public defender downtown where, he says, the clients are friendlier and less apt to commit perjury. I won’t stand in his way. Stuart, I know that by now everyone at Hertzog Webber and Doyle will have gotten used to my absence, and Mitchell’s leaving the firm shouldn’t have a deleterious effect on anything.

Margaret, I understand that you’re upset with Mitchell for something he did to Stuart’s fiancée. I told you when they were kids, and I’ll tell you now that they’re adults: Keep out of it. It’s your own fault, anyway. If you didn’t keep on telling Stuart he was your favorite, he wouldn’t have gotten such a swelled head to begin with.

And no, Stuart, I don’t mean that literally.

As for Janice’s becoming a lesbian and drawing against her capital: Again, Margaret, keep out of it. I don’t know about this lesbian business, and frankly, I don’t want to know. But that money is Janice’s to do with as she pleases. I do have to draw the line at her spending it on school. I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous in my life. I will pay for Janice’s tuition, as I did for all you kids. Janice, your orca business sounds like a damned stupid idea, but it’s your money, and if it makes you happy, you kayak around Puget Sound as much as you want.

Now I would appreciate it if you would all quit calling me, e-mailing me, Fed-Exing me, faxing me, and leaving messages for me at the hotel desk. I am on VACATION. I will let you know when it’s over. But I can tell you, it won’t be anytime soon.

I think I can get nine more holes in before dark, so I’m off. Good-bye.

Dad

To: Kate Mackenzie

Fr: Helen Green

Re: Professor Wingblade

Dear Ms. Mackenzie,

I regret to inform you that Professor Wingblade is on sabbatical this year in Uganda. Due to the lack of electricity in the remote village in which he is doing his research, he does not have access to e-mail. If your message is of an urgent nature you can attempt to send it via “snail mail.” However, the postal system in the area in which the professor is currently staying is unreliable at best. The professor has asked that all mail of a non-urgent nature be held until his return. Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance to you.

Sincerely,

Helen Green

Administrative Assistant

Department of Psychology

College of Arts and Sciences

University of Kentucky

To: Helen Green

Fr: Kate Mackenzie

Re: Professor Wingblade

Dear Helen,

You know what? It doesn’t matter. I think it’s going to be all right. Tell Professor Wingblade hi from me when he gets back.

Kate

To: Kate Mackenzie

Fr: Mitchell Hertzog

Re: You

So, now that you’ve gotten your job back, you’ll probably want to start thinking about finding a place to live.

And I just wanted to let you know, there’s a vacancy in my building. In my apartment, actually. And I was kind of wondering how you felt about that.

Mitch

To: Mitchell Hertzog

Fr: Kate Mackenzie

Re: You

Interesting proposition. Let’s meet at your place to discuss after work today.

Kate

Acknowledgments

With thanks to the many people who helped contribute to this book (all errors are the author’s own):

Beth Ader

Jennifer Brown

Elizabeth Claypoole

Carrie Feron

Michele Jaffe

Laura Langlie

Todd Sullivan

Stephanie Vullo

David Walton

Dan Wasser

About the Author

Meg (a.k.a.) Meggin Cabot is the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed, immensely popular Princess Diaries novels - Volumes I-III ( The Princess Diaries ; Princess in the Spotlight ; and Princess in Love ) are published by PerfectBound, along with All-American Girl and two adult contemporary books, The Boy Next Door and Boy Meets Girl . She is also the author of (among many, many other books, including even more Princess Diaries titles) She Went All the Way ; Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator ; and two Regency-era novels, Nicola and the Viscount and Victoria and the Rogue . Meg lives with her husband in New York City. Please visit www.megcabot.com.

Books by Meg Cabot

BOYMEETSGIRL

THEBOYNEXTDOOR

SHEWENTALLTHEWAY

Young Adult Titles

THEPRINCESSDIARIES

THEPRINCESSDIARIES, VOLUMEII: PRINCESSINTHESPOTLIGHT

THEPRINCESSDIARIES, VOLUMEIII: PRINCESSINLOVE

THEPRINCESSDIARIES, VOLUMEIV: PRINCESSINWAITING

THEPRINCESSDIARIES, VOLUMEIV½: PROJECTPRINCESS

PRINCESSLESSONS

ALLAMERICANGIRL

HAUNTED

NICOLA AND THEVISCOUNT

VICTORIA AND THEROGUE

Credits

Cover illustration by Paul Stinson

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