Settling Up

Carmen Miller did everything right.

By thirty-five, she has the MBA, executive title, husband, and child she always planned for. Her life looks like success from the outside. From the inside, it feels like a list she has spent years completing.

Then she meets Braxton Frazier, a younger colleague with enough ambition to challenge her and enough honesty to make her question everything she thought she wanted.

Their attraction is immediate. Their affair is reckless. And because they work together, there is no clean way to separate desire from the life Carmen has built.

As secrets become impossible to contain, Carmen must decide whether protecting the future she planned is worth losing herself, or whether one devastating choice could lead her to the life she actually wants.