The Second Act of Sinclair: A Novel

For fans of The Idea of You.Jamie Sinclair has spent years being the woman everyone else needed her to be.Then betrayal ends her marriage, and the family she fought to protect begins coming apart anyway. Her teenage son blames her for the divorce and is pulling further away every day. With the life she knew gone and no clear idea of what comes next, Jamie is left facing a question she has spent most of her life avoiding: What does she want for herself?Starting over should be her chance to find out. Instead, when her father calls in a favor and lands her a job in sports representation, Jamie does what she has always done. She takes the road placed in front of her and tries to make it work.Then Carson Tate walks into her office.At twenty-six, the struggling wide receiver needs someone willing to fight for his career. Jamie needs to prove she can succeed in a world she never planned to enter. Representing him should be strictly professional, but Carson sees something in Jamie she has forgotten how to see in herself: a woman with desires and dreams.Their attraction is unexpected and dangerous. Crossing that line could threaten Jamie's career and deepen the fracture with the son she is already terrified of losing.But Carson isn't the only choice Jamie has to make.For years, Jamie has allowed love, family, fear, and other people's expectations to determine the shape of her life. Now she must decide whether starting over means simply building another life around what everyone else needs or finally having the courage to choose one of her own.An emotional contemporary romance about love after betrayal, a mother fighting to hold on to her son, and a woman discovering that sometimes finding your second act means finally choosing your own path.