Kimberly Stuart

New Yorker Sadie Maddox is the toast of the classical-music world-and abit of a diva. But lately her CD sales are sagging, not to mention parts ofher anatomy. Maybe it's time for a change. So when her agent suggests aprofessorship at a small liberal-arts college, Sadie decides to give it a go.Besides, she needs the money.But the college is in rural Iowa. Sadie's colleagues are intimidated, herstudents aren't impressed, and she has to live far too close to farm animals.When Sadie meets Mac, a veterinarian, she assumes they have nothing incommon-he is, after all, a country-music fan-and she's counting the daysuntil she moves back to New York. Yet, when Sadie is forced to spend timewith Mac, she likes him. Her students really need her. And this quiet midwestcommunity begins to grow on her. But when the semester ends, Sadie packs up and decamps for the citythat never sleeps.and fi nds she can't either. Will she fi nd the courage andgrace she needs to embrace her Act Two?About the AuthorKimberly Stuart holds degrees from St. Olaf College and the University of Iowa. After teaching Spanish and English as a second language in Chicago, Minneapolis, Costa Rica, and eastern Iowa, she took a huge increase in pay to be a full-time mom. She makes her home in Des Moines, Iowa, with her husband and two young children.