What if your office neighbor wants to hurt you? Young Nella Rogers works in New York in a prestigious publishing house and seems destined for a promising career. However, she suffers from the lack of diversity at work as well as the micro-aggressions she experiences on a daily basis. She finds herself constantly torn between the desire to express her true opinions and the need to keep her job. Her world turns upside down the day Hazel is recruited: she has long, sublime dreadlocks, and loudly proclaims her African-American culture.

She embodies exactly the type of woman Nella would like to be. Together, they could revolutionize the world of culture for generations to come. But shortly after this new colleague arrives, Nella feels watched and begins to receive threatening letters... What if the arrival of another black girl was ultimately the beginning of her ordeal? An explosive first novel that questions inequalities in the world of work with panache and audacity, while building suspense with a captivating and above all... scathing plot.