Stages

Three lives entwined by one shattering truth.At thirty-eight, Cam has built a career fixing companies while never letting anything or anyone break her. As she's about to battle her workplace rival for a coveted promotion, she inherits an estate from a grandmother she believed died decades before.Sixteen-year-old Josie is struggling to make it through high school. Between her father's drinking and her mother's prolonged absence, she's desperate to stay invisible. When a school essay contest exposes more than she intended, her father reveals a truth that shatters her world even more.Sophia is a twenty-four-year-old who has learned that nothing pays the bills quite like a rich married man. After years of saving, she finally has the money she needs to start over. But just as she's about to walk away, a message forces her to face a past she's been trying to forget and a future she isn't sure she can have.As the losses pile on, each will make choices that ultimately lead to the untangling of the thread that binds them together.Stages is a powerful story about how buried secrets, inherited pain, and unresolved grief mold us into the people we become.