Cheryl Gafner

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.

"Violet is Single" is a story about a famous San Francisco food critic who uses her love of food to compensate for her troubled love life. Violet claims to prefer singledom, believing that relationships make people boring, yet her many attempts at dating suggest she's not really comfortable with being alone. Things change, though, when she meets a fortune teller who tells her that she will be incredibly successful but alone forever. Believing she's romantically doomed, Violet gives up on love and in the process finds Mr. Right, or so she thinks.