When Did This Become My Problem‪?‬

One small favor. One enormous centerpiece. One woman who apparently just became responsible for everything.

Lucy Adler is a project manager. She understands deadlines, responsibilities, and the importance of knowing exactly who’s supposed to do what.

Which is why she should have recognized the danger when her friend Natalie asked her to accept one little delivery.

It was supposed to be simple.

Receive a floral centerpiece for a community fundraiser. Make sure nothing happens to it. Done.

Except the centerpiece is seven feet tall, the fundraiser committee is spectacularly disorganized, and everyone seems to have decided that Lucy’s professional expertise makes her the perfect person to solve their problems.

Suddenly, she’s fielding questions about catering, raffle baskets, volunteer assignments, transportation logistics, and a budget she never agreed to manage.

And somehow, her name keeps appearing on spreadsheets.

Lucy wants the fundraiser to succeed. She believes in the cause. She even likes the people involved.

She just doesn’t understand when any of this became her responsibility.

As one small favor spirals into an unofficial management position, Lucy discovers that setting boundaries is considerably harder when everyone assumes being helpful means being available.

Especially when the people making those assumptions are her friends.

A witty, relatable story about friendship, boundaries, volunteer committees, and the dangerous consequences of being competent.

When Did This Become My Problem? is Book Four in Cordelia Finch’s Ethical Quandary series of standalone humorous women’s fiction novels. Each book features a new protagonist, a different everyday dilemma, and one very uncomfortable question.