The Workplace Circus
The Workplace Circus · Book Three

Congratulations, You Hired Your Replacement

Now get rid of him before the board notices.

At Harborlight Dental Group, Avery Cole has moved from candidate to manager and become the problem-solver the operation needs. The COO who hired him sees his results—and begins to fear that the board will notice how much better he can make the work run.

The third act · Avery’s story at Harborlight
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Book Three cover: Congratulations, You Hired Your Replacement
“To everyone hired to solve a problem, then treated like the problem when the solution worked.”Book Three dedication
When success feels like a threat

Inside the story

As Avery’s success becomes harder to ignore, the COO’s confidence turns into a plan to remove him before he overshadows her. Avery is left to navigate shifting expectations and office politics while continuing to help the same teams and clinics that brought him into the role. The third book brings the series’ central tension to its sharpest point: what happens when the person hired to fix the operation becomes a threat to the leader who hired him?

Book Three completes Avery Cole’s story at Harborlight Dental Group. Read the three books in order.

About the series: All three books follow Avery Cole at Harborlight Dental Group. Book One follows the interview, Book Two the job without training, and Book Three the threat to Avery’s position after his work earns notice. The characters and organization are fictional.

Author Jason Anthony Robare
About the author

Jason Anthony Robare

Jason is a published author, operations executive, and procurement leader with experience in multi-site organizations. His fiction draws on the human side of complex work—the office teams, managers, systems, and decisions that shape an ordinary day. In The Workplace Circus, he turns those pressures into character-driven stories with humor, warmth, and a clear-eyed look at leadership.

The Workplace Circus · Books One through Three

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