After Office Hours - The Adjunct, #1

Amanda has a good life—a fulfilling career as an English professor at a small, liberal arts college, and a marriage that has lasted more than a decade. But behind closed doors, she carries a secret she's never dared to confess to her husband, Matt—that their intimacy has always been a performance, and her deepest needs have gone unmet.

When she begins an affair with her department chair, Ethan, it feels like an outlet for everything she's secretly yearned for but kept buried behind the facade of being the "perfect wife." But one reckless night shatters everything when Matt discovers her betrayal in the most devastating way possible.

What follows is the unraveling of their "perfect" marriage built on love, silence, and desperate, unspoken desires. Forced to confront betrayal, shame, and a deep passion waiting to be claimed, Amanda retreats to a mountain lodge and asks Matt to meet her one last time. There, in the wreckage of all they knew, they face the hardest question of all: can honesty repair what secrecy has silently eroded?

Raw, emotional, and unflinching, After Office Hours is a story about the true cost of silence, the danger of desire kept hidden in the shadows, and what it takes to truly see—and be seen by—the person you love.