Firebrand

NO ONE is their authentic self at work

Currant Keppler has a fresh MBA and her first corporate job: participating in the LATTE Management Rotation Program at Alpine Chalet Coffee Company, the Midwest's second-largest coffee chain. She's fluent in jargon, excited for new challenges, and completely bought in-until she realizes that there's something fishy with her first project.

I'm in the big leagues now, she tells herself. This is just how the game is played. But when a question of ethics turns into a question of murder, she learns that some people will do anything to succeed - and that NO ONE is their authentic self at work.

Combining corporate culture, the start-up scene, cabin life, and punny coffee drinks, Firebrand takes a campy, loving look at impostor syndrome, authenticity, and the absurdities of the corporate world.

"A clever mystery replete with Millennials, MBAs, Marketing, and Macchiatos… It's witty, fresh, and spot on." - Susan D. Steiner, Murder by Manuscript (the August Burns series)

"Funny, existential, and thought-provoking." - Mahmoud Rasmi, philosophy consultant

"As a Minnesotan and someone going into corporate life, I appreciated it." - Mya Sullivan, Minnesotan going into corporate life