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From a delightful new voice in fiction comes the story of a stay-at-home dad reclaiming his past and discovering a new future. Jack Parker didnt set out to be a stay-at-home dad, but his professional dreams went up in smoke after he accidentally burned down his office building. Six years later, Jacks got parenting his two kids down cold. Then comes an unwelcome blast from Jacks past: high school nemesis Chad Henson. He beat out Jack for class president, stole his girlfriend, and never had so much as a pimple in his four years of adolescent bliss. Now Chad has moved to the same midwestern town Jack calls home. When Jack learns Chad is running for president of his daughters school board, he decides to run to settle old scores. But parent politics prove more cutthroat than Jack could have imagined, and hes facing unexpected challenges in his marriage, too, forcing him to question his role in the family. Suddenly, the election is about more than Jacks past. Its an opportunity to discover the person he wants to become. People grow up, but some high school rivalries never die. Its time Chad Henson got schooled once and for alland for Jack to learn a few things of his own.
From a delightful new voice in fiction comes the story of a stay-at-home dad reclaiming his past and discovering a new future.
Jack Parker didnt set out to be a stay-at-home dad, but his professional dreams went up in smoke after he accidentally burned down his office building. Six years later, Jacks got parenting his two kids down cold.
Then comes an unwelcome blast from Jacks past: high school nemesis Chad Henson. He beat out Jack for class president, stole his girlfriend, and never had so much as a pimple in his four years of adolescent bliss. Now Chad has moved to the same midwestern town Jack calls home.
When Jack learns Chad is running for president of his daughters school board, he decides to run to settle old scores. But parent politics prove more cutthroat than Jack could have imagined, and hes facing unexpected challenges in his marriage, too, forcing him to question his role in the family. Suddenly, the election is about more than Jacks past. Its an opportunity to discover the person he wants to become.
People grow up, but some high school rivalries never die. Its time Chad Henson got schooled once and for alland for Jack to learn a few things of his own.