Act Two [Paperback]

New Yorker Sadie Maddox is the toast of the classical-music worldand a bit of a diva. But lately her CD sales are sagging, not to mention parts of her anatomy. Maybe its time for a change. So when her agent suggests a professorship 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. Sadies colleagues are intimidated, her students arent impressed, and she has to live far too close to farm animals. When Sadie meets Mac, a veterinarian, she assumes they have nothing in commonhe is, after all, a country-music fanand shes counting the days until she moves back to New York. Yet, when Sadie is forced to spend time with Mac, she likes him. Her students really need her. And this quiet Midwest community begins to grow on her. When the semester ends, Sadie packs up and decamps for the city that never sleeps&and finds she cant either. Will she find the courage and grace she needs to embrace her Act Two?