Grim and Bear It

A grim first week on the job.

Tessa Randolph is feeling defeated. On the outs with her boyfriend and suddenly without a job, she's scrambling to pay the rent. She doesn't exactly have the kind of life she wants.

Tessa needs a change.

And the ability to afford the wet food her cat Pepper thinks she deserves at every meal.

Against her better judgement but without another offer, Tessa takes a job from one of the scariest of bosses--her mother, who has a deadly sharp tongue.

And just like that, she ...