Time's Up

A young counselor with big dreams. A powerful family full of secrets. And one night that changes everything. When 24-year-old Lizzie Rose lands her first job as a counselor after graduate school, she's ready to make a difference. But her idealism is tested when her first assignment is a court-mandated therapy case involving the wealthiest-and most secretive-family in town. Complicating everything: Lizzie has unknowingly become entangled with one of the family's sons during a wild night out. She wants to come clean, but the case proceeds, forcing her to navigate a minefield of professional ethics, personal guilt, and emotional landmines. As she delves into the private struggles of each family member, Lizzie begins to unravel not only their carefully curated image-but also her own assumptions about trauma, privilege, and what it means to truly help someone. A character-driven literary novel about blurred boundaries, buried grief, and the messiness of healing, this is a story that reminds us that even behind the grandest facades, no one is immune to pain.