Second Chances

Gary Sheldon is about to meet the child he never knew he had. Within months, the popular afternoon-drive radio announcer and music director at Connecticut's Z97-3 initiates a lawsuit seeking full custody of his nine-year-old daughter.

Some years later, after enduring an acrimonious custody battle for the little girl, Gary finds himself embroiled in a shocking legal drama involving a teenage intern at the radio station. The bitter conflict threatens his career, his reputation and his faith.

Amid mounting trauma, Gary faces his steepest challenge yet: to extend forgiveness and second chances (and learn to accept them himself when they're offered). In doing so, he embraces the faith that sustained him when he feared all was lost.

International award-winning novelist Rita M. Reali has been writing since she could hold a pencil. She's a national award-winning journalist and award-winning essayist, photographer, parody songwriter and visual artist.Bitten by the radio bug at an early age, this onetime radio announcer and news director weaves elements of the broadcast world and its assorted quirky personalities into her novels. A native and longtime resident of Connecticut, Rita and her husband live on the Cumberland Plateau in Eastern Tennessee, where she's an independent editor and "literary midwife." Second Chances is the fourth volume in the Sheldon Family Saga.