THE UNDERWRITING centers around a $14 billion IPO for the world’s hottest dating site app. Expertly capturing the universe it inhabits – from the slick, cut-throat financial world of New York to the new counterculture of the Bay Area where high tech start-ups can make twenty-somethings billionaires overnight, Miller draws on her own background to create a savvy, highly entertaining and utterly addicting glimpse into the power centers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Miller offers a stunning debut that is both riveting page-turner and incisive social commentary.

Wall Street playboy Todd Kent is young, hot, and on his way to the top when the eccentric founder of Hook, the popular new dating app, handpicks him to lead its IPO. Given just two months to pull it off, Todd and his investment banking team—brainy Neha, party-boy Beau, and old college flame Tara Taylor—race to close the $14 billion deal of the decade. It’s the chance of a lifetime for Tara, too, who sees her opportunity to break through the glass ceiling and justify six years of sacrifices for her career. But nothing is what it seems in Silicon Valley, and when tragedy strikes Stanford University’s campus, there’s no telling where the sparks will fly.
Michelle Miller started writing fiction while enrolled in business school and published anonymously for several years before leaving the corporate world to pen The Underwriting. Her works include the young adult novels Social Code and The Next Big Thing by Sadie Hayes, and the essays “Why SF Really Is That Bad,” “Perfect Seven,” and “Introducing the Muppies.” In her prior life, Michelle worked in the Palo Alto and Greenwich offices of JP Morgan’s Private Bank and as a management consultant in New York and Europe. She holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Stanford University, and currently splits her time between New York and her hometown of Asheville, North Carolina.