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The Understudy CEO

The Understudy CEO

Chu, George

Paperback

Humor

ISBN13: 9798189500459
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 28 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A database glitch just made her the CEO. She still doesn't know how to use the espresso machine on the executive floor.

Arabella Fairfax has one professional goal: get through the workday without anyone remembering her name. Six quiet years in accounts payable have suited her perfectly.

Then a botched HR data migration accidentally names her Interim Chief Executive Officer of Wyndham & Sterling Industries - for thirty full days, with the real CEO unreachable on a digital detox retreat and no way to undo it.

What follows is equal parts disaster and revelation: a sycophantic VP who agrees with opinions she hasn't had yet, a board member scheming to install his own candidate, a devoted intern who believes in her more than she believes in herself - and a slowly uncovered financial scandal that nobody with an actual MBA ever bothered to notice.

The Understudy CEO is a whip-smart, big-hearted workplace comedy about competence hiding in plain sight, the specific chaos of accidental power, and what happens when the person who actually reads the numbers finally gets a seat at the table.

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