title: True Stories of Strange Events and Odd People: A Memoir
author: Lawrence S. Bartell
description: Lawrence S. Bartell is a professor emeritus of the chemistry department of the University of Michigan. To date, he has published over three hundred scientific articles and continues to actively publish today. This is his first work of a nonscientific nature, presenting stories accumulated over a lifetime.
zlib_text: **Quarantined with the Billionaire**
  
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  **Jade C. Jamison**
  
  **Copyright**
  
  Copyright 2020 by Jade C. Jamison
  
  Cover image © VitalikRadko/ Depositphotos
  
  This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and events are
  products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are
  not to be constructed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead,
  actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental. Characters
  and names of real persons who appear in the book are used fictitiously.
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any manner
  whatsoever without written permission from the author except in the case of
  brief quotation embodied in critical articles, reviews, or discussions.
  
  **Chapter One**
  
  I frowned as I rolled my desk chair into the conference room on the third
  floor, reminding myself that strange times called for strange measures. As
  long as I’d worked here, the customer service st