She earned
the promotion.
That was the problem.

One signature can change everything.

Mara Ellison has spent years doing careful, invisible work at a storied Fifth Avenue luxury house. When the CFO finally sees her, promotes her, and entrusts her with the document the company’s public future depends on, it feels like everything she has earned has arrived at last.

She doesn’t yet understand that her credibility is exactly what someone needs. The warmth of the man who chose her was real. So was the use he intended to make of it.

By the time Mara sees what she is standing inside, the record already tells a devastating story—and every word of it is true.