Passed Over for His Father's Nephew

For twenty-two years, Janet Larkin has held her husband's family business together, knowing every account, employee, and problem before anyone else does.

Her father-in-law then names his twenty-nine-year-old grandson to lead the company, and Janet is expected to welcome him, teach him the work, and stay in the role she has always filled.

After twenty-six years of marriage, Mike assumes she can accept that choice.

The promotion is not what Janet cannot get past; it is that her husband knew about it before she did.

When she looks again at the place she has occupied in his family for more than two decades, Mike may discover how much of his comfortable life depended on a wife who never asked for more.