About
Sylvia Vanguard appears to have built the life she was supposed to want: financial security, a celebrated career, and a steady relationship with the man she’s shared her future with. But when she reaches her highest professional peak, she realizes motherhood is the one milestone she never claimed—and the longer she waits, the more it feels like her chance is slipping away. Denied when she asks her longtime boyfriend for a place in that plan, Sylvia refuses to pause her life for someone else’s timeline. In a sleek, high-pressure world where “acceptable” paths to family feel predetermined, she turns to unconventional options to conceive on her own, determined to control the variables that have controlled her so far. As her search for answers expands, so do the complications around her, pulling Sylvia into an unsettling tangle of personal risk, moral doubt, and unexpected consequences that force her to confront how far she’s willing to go—and what it will cost to build a future that is truly hers.