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At first people called it ambition: the way she collected odd jobs with a smile that suggested a ledger of debts being slowly erased. She could charm a busker into giving up a chord, a baker into sliding a still-warm roll across the counter. She smiled at the city and the city smiled back, offering scraps and secrets. But scraps were never enough. There was a peculiar sharpness to how she took things—an appetite that reached beyond want into a more urgent, elemental need.
However, Veronica's life takes a dramatic turn when she meets Cassidy Conner (played by Sydney Teri), a young and ambitious nutritionist. Cassidy promises to help Veronica achieve her weight loss goals, but her methods are unorthodox and border on manipulation.