A new beginning was the plan. Forbidden love was not. Welcome to her second act. For fans of The Idea of You—with a little Jerry Maguire in its DNA. Jamie Sinclair, a divorced mother, is trying to rebuild her life, raising two teenagers while proving herself in a male dominated industry where she has had to work twice as hard to be taken seriously.Then Carson Tate walks into her office.He is a football player trying to save what is left of his career. She is the woman hired to help him do it. Neither of them is looking for love, and neither of them can afford the kind of attention their connection would bring. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes for Jamie to ignore what Carson sees in her: not the ex-wife, not the mother holding everything together, not the woman who had learned to make herself smaller. Just Jamie.What makes this novel different is that it is not simply a love story; it is realistic and relatable. Packed with intense family drama, it features a plot twist readers will not see coming. While some chapters will leave you frustrated with Jamie and wishing she would stand up for herself, others will keep you on the edge of your seat with traumatic, real-life events. Jamie has questionable coping mechanisms, but after everything falls apart, she finally chooses herself.

A new beginning was the plan. Forbidden love was not. Welcome to her second act. For fans of The Idea of You—with a little Jerry Maguire in its DNA. Jamie Sinclair, a divorced mother, is trying to rebuild her life, raising two teenagers while proving herself in a male dominated industry where she has had to work twice as hard to be taken seriously.Then Carson Tate walks into her office.He is a football player trying to save what is left of his career. She is the woman hired to help him do it. Neither of them is looking for love, and neither of them can afford the kind of attention their connection would bring. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes for Jamie to ignore what Carson sees in her: not the ex-wife, not the mother holding everything together, not the woman who had learned to make herself smaller. Just Jamie.What makes this novel different is that it is not simply a love story; it is realistic and relatable. Packed with intense family drama, it features a plot twist readers will not see coming. While some chapters will leave you frustrated with Jamie and wishing she would stand up for herself, others will keep you on the edge of your seat with traumatic, real-life events. Jamie has questionable coping mechanisms, but after everything falls apart, she finally chooses herself.