Chapter 18

• Story 3
• Josephine Rossi needed a break. Not in the sleep-late, spa-weekend, glass-or-two-of-wine kind of way—although as a single mom, she’d take any of those and run like an Olympic athlete going for gold. No, Jo needed a big break. The kind that made careers. The kind she’d once gotten, then lost spectacularly. The kind she needed now if she was going to have any hope of living her dream of becoming a full-time actress.
• After all, as her agent had delicately pointed out, thirty-two-year-old single moms with limited experience weren’t exactly a casting producer’s first choice for breakthrough roles in new TV series. Not even when those roles spoke to said single mom/actresses deeply, or when they were staring down their very last shot at getting on the silver screen.