The Assignment

Catherine "CJ" McCarter seems like she's got it all together. President of a university, accomplished economist, married to her college sweetheart, and mother of a beautiful and intelligent college-age daughter, from the outside, her life is the picture of success. But doubts about her husband's faithfulness and recurring thoughts about a young male PhD candidate are about to disrupt her tightly controlled existence and cause her to do things she's never dreamed of. Becoming embroiled in an academic scandal and being threatened by blackmail that could end her career and dismantle everything she's worked so hard for, CJ is forced to reckon with parts of her life--and herself--that have long been left unexamined.