When Vicky D'Angelo lands her first secretarial job after high school at a prestigious engineering firm in Manhattan, she hopes only it will lead to a better life for herself and her struggling, single mother. It isn't long, however, before she realizes the company she works for is no ordinary engineering firm, and the colleague she has fallen in love with, no ordinary young man. Both will deliver her into a brilliant, unexpected life -- but at a cost.
Based on a true story and Edward Hopper's painting Office at Night, this is a short story about growing amid great uncertainty, accepting both loss and life coming full circle with love.
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Georgette Gouveia is the author of The Penalty for Holding, a 2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist, and Water Music (Greenleaf Book Group). They're part of her series, The Games Men Play, which is also the name of her sports/culture blog.
A 2018 Folio Women in Media Award winner, Gouveia is also the editor in chief of WAG, a luxury lifestyles publication named a top magazine by the New York Press Association, and has several nonfiction book credits as an arts essayist and biographer.
For more information, visit thegamesmenplay.com.