Life Without Coffee Breaks

What do you do when all at once your personal life is filled with so much turmoil that a chaotic, stress-filled work environment becomes more of a safe haven than the comforts of your own home? Meet Carla Reese, a savvy, sexy, and confident 32-year-old single woman trying to cope with it all. Carla works for The Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), an agency known both for servicing Section 8 clients and for being one of the most highly dramatic workplaces in all of Boston. Daily, Carla must maintain her professionalism while dealing with an overwhelming client caseload that brings a wide array of characters into her life, ranging from the endearing to the most annoying clients in Boston. The only thing that tops her colorful clients are her very own co-workers, including her office adversary, a hilarious new gay employee, and a Housing Manager who smells like yesterday’s garbage. When this clan gets together there is constant drama and even more juicy personal scandals that spill into wild office gossip. After working with so many diverse personalities over the years, Carla has become an excellent judge of character and an expert in her field. She only wishes it could be less difficult to judge the character of the people in her life outside of work. While coping with the loss of her father, Carla makes life-changing decisions, closing the door on significant people in her life who deceived her, including an ex-boyfriend that she misses dearly but no longer tolerates, and her trusted sister who reveals a secret of Carla’s that is so private, she must cut off all ties with her sister. Being a strong-willed woman, Carla is just fine with simply removing people from her life who betrayed her, until a dark secret from the past re-emerges. Now Carla is forced to take control over a situation that she thought was far behind her, a situation that is so persistent she plans to seek revenge until an unexpected relationship develops that changes everything. Follow Carla as she tries to balance a personal life in shambles and a work life wild enough for reality TV! You will laugh out loud, and weep with joy and from despair. In the end this heroine and the characters who share her life with will captivate you.