by Ela Lee
First published 2024
Tara Kim works late nights at a prestigious London law firm, navigating a brutally competitive environment where survival means swallowing her pride. When a senior partner's sexual harassment escalates beyond whispered comments, Tara must choose between professional silence and personal integrity. Her immigrant family's expectations clash with her own sense of justice, creating a pressure cooker of potential consequences. Each potential action threatens to unravel her carefully constructed career path—reporting means professional suicide, staying silent means complicity. As power dynamics shift and witnesses become unreliable, Tara realizes her response will define not just her future, but potentially the futures of other women trapped in similar systems.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, social-issues, legal-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, moral-dilemma, professional-conflict
Setting: London
Period: contemporary
400 pages · Hardcover · Harvill Secker
Content warnings: abuse, sexism, sexual-assault