Bureaucracy Strikes Back

Keith Lin has survived unemployment, dragon-fruit copywriting, and a cat who judges her professionally. But nothing prepared her for a State Tax Audit Notice - arriving by mail like a threat printed on official letterhead.

Now she has thirty days, one drawer labeled "Possibly Important, Emotionally Hostile," a best friend ordering her to touch grass, a family group chat treating the word "audit" as a medical emergency, and Barnaby: six kilograms of grumpy tabby who remains deeply unimpressed.

A comedy about hold music, missing receipts, and the very adult terror of being asked to prove you have things together. The folder survives. Probably.*

Book 2 in the Burnt Toast & Boardrooms series. Each book stands alone.*