Our Second Act

By: Margo Dare

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

“I’m not gonna be the one to force you into a life you didn’t choose. You choose, Louisa.”

You know that boyfriend that every teenage girl has? Her first love? The guy who's no good for her, who everybody knows is going to be a loser?

Mine was named Henry Wilder.

He was sweet, and in love with me, and a total mess. If my dad had been around, he'd have told me to stay far, far away from Henry. But he wasn't, so I fell in love with him instead. And it ruined my entire life.

Fast forward ten years, and I'm not headlining on Broadway like I dreamed about, or starring in hit TV show. I've never even played a corpse on Law and Order. I live in a studio apartment in the Bronx that perpetually smells like onions and I make my living as a singing waitress in a tourist trap in Times Square.

And because the universe has a sick sense of humor, Henry Wilder just sat down at my table. He looks taller, if that's possible. More handsome. He doesn't look like he spent the last ten years trying to forget we ever met, like I did. And if that's not humiliating enough, the guy who derailed my dreams? The one who everybody thought would be working at the scrap yard for the rest of his life?

He's wearing Tom Ford.

From author Margo Dare comes a new steamy, dual-timeline book about the consequences of getting what we want--and what we never expected.