Over the course of an amazingly prolific literary career during which she penned hundreds of short stories, novels, essays, and screenplays, author Nina Wilcox Putnam developed a knack for creating indelibly unique characters. In the novel It Pays to Smile, patrician spinster Freedom Talbot is forced by worsening financial circumstances to seek gainful employment. She stumbles across a job offer that seems tailor-made for her—but is it too good to be true?