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.