Anna Bright is Hiding Something by Susie Orman Schnall

For readers fascinated with entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos fraud saga, this novel is the perfect book to tuck into your beach tote this summer!

I raced through Schnall’s latest and loved everything about it—the style, the voice, the pacing, and the backdrop of Silicon Valley and the venture capital world.

Anna Bright, the founder of BrightLife, is about to take her company public. She and her team created BrightSpot, an implantable lens that will change how people live. However, there are problems with the lens and subdermal microchip. And Anna knows this … Dead set on leading her company through an IPO, she ignores the issues and misleads the public.

Nothing will stop her from succeeding.

Especially not Jamie Roman, a young BusinessBerry journalist specializing in startup culture and female founders.

I found the subject matter fascinating—strong women and what they face in the workforce, an excellent introduction to startup stages and mentality. And I enjoy a good how-in-the-world-could-she story. But I also realize an invention similar to BrightSpot is coming in our not-too-distant future.