This Is How It Happened (not a love story)

by Jo Barrett

  She first thanked the employees and staff of Giganto for their hard work and dedication, along with her husband, and her brother, Ronald Piatro, who Chairs the nonprofit drug rehab program: “The Miracle Teens.”

  “Companies are only as vibrant as the people who run them,” Ms. Piatro said.

  When teased by a reporter about whether Ms. Piatro would assume her husband’s last name, she laughed and responded, simply, “My husband has never told me his last name.”

  Ms. Piatro’s husband is rumored to work undercover for the FBI.

  About the Author

  JO BARRETT’s previous novel, The Men’s Guide to the Women’s Bathroom, was published in five countries and optioned by CBS/Paramount Pictures. She is a frequent guest on television and radio shows nationwide.

  Ms. Barrett was born in Japan, grew up in Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas, Austin, and Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C.

  She is a former Capitol Hill staffer for Congressman Collin Peterson, and member of the Texas State Bar.

  Currently, she divides her time between Texas and the two coasts.

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  By Jo Barrett

  THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED (NOT A LOVE STORY)

  THE MEN’S GUIDE TO THE WOMEN’S BATHROOM

  Credits

  Cover design by Laura Klynstra

  Cover photograph by Luca TravatoFoodPix/Jupiterimages

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED (NOT A LOVE STORY). Copyright © 2007 by JoAnna Barrett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  EPub Edition © DECEMBER 2007 ISBN: 9780061842832

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