Ambition Redirected

Jo Chapman has everything she worked for. The corner office. Financial independence. A powerful career. And absolutely no idea why any of it matters anymore.

Three years after her divorce, one explosive Monday morning forces Jo to confront a truth she has been successfully outrunning: somewhere between ambition and achievement, she lost herself.

So she does something completely unlike the woman everyone thinks they know.

She walks away from Manhattan for a year.

Her destination is Swakopmund, Namibia, where Jo trades corporate strategy meetings for an after-school classroom filled with children eager to master computers, a landscape where desert meets ocean and a life in which success can no longer be measured by a balance sheet.

What begins as a sabbatical becomes something far more complicated. New friendships pull her into a community. Conservation work brings her face-to-face with Namibia's remarkable desert elephants. Philanthropy begins to mean more than simply writing a check. And Rick, a man Jo most definitely did not include in her carefully constructed plan, gives her another reason to question the life waiting for her back home.

But a year has an expiration date.

When New York calls her back, Jo must decide whether Namibia was simply the adventure she needed to recover from her old life... or whether it revealed the life she was meant to build next.

Warm, funny, romantic and deeply hopeful, Ambition Redirected is a story about friendship, purpose, second chances and the unsettling possibility that achieving everything you wanted may only be the beginning.