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Six years ago, I started writing a story I didn’t have words for yet: what it really feels like to be “indispensable” at work but never quite visible enough to be promoted, to be told you’re “smart as hell” but “not a presence,” and to realize the cost of staying small.

That story is now a novel.

🎉 I’m thrilled (and a little terrified) to share that my debut book, Crossing in One Piece: A Corporate Wake-Up Story about Bridges, Cape Codders, and Not Vanishing in an Open-Plan Office, is officially LIVE!!

It follows Caroline “Cary” Valente, a senior analyst whose carefully managed, spreadsheet-perfect life implodes after one drunken wedding speech, a brutally honest bit of hallway feedback, and a reorg that turns her work into a weapon. As she navigates promotions, office politics, ethical gray zones, and a long-running crush, she has to decide whether to keep being “the steady hand”… or finally become the main character in her own career.

I wrote this book for:

Anyone who’s ever been praised for being “reliable” while watching louder people leapfrog ahead.

People who’ve sat through reorgs, “performance plans,” and “executive presence” feedback and wondered if they were the problem—or if the system was.

If that’s you (or your favorite quietly brilliant coworker), I would be over-the-moon grateful if you’d check it out, grab a copy, or share this with someone who needs a little corporate catharsis and a lot of spreadsheets, feelings, and fairy lights.

Link: https://a.co/d/02G8aGcd

If this story makes you feel even one inch more seen or more willing to ask for the thing you’ve earned, then every late-night writing sprint was worth it.