Jonathon Kimes has everything he ever sketched on a napkin: a thriving restaurant, a marriage built on twelve years of genuine partnership, and a new son who changed everything the moment he was born.
Then a new hire walks through the door - sharp, ambitious, easy to talk to in exactly the way he's forgotten how to be. Nothing happens. That's what Jon tells himself, and for a long time, it's even true.
But temptation was never really about what he'd do. It was about what he'd let himself want - the number saved under a different name, the lunch that ran two hours long, the laugh that landed somewhere it shouldn't have. Every choice small enough to explain away, until the night a knock at a hotel room door forces him to confront the one thing he can't rationalize: he wanted it to be her.
The Echo Chamber: Jonathon is the first book in a trilogy about the quiet, devastating architecture of an emotional affair - the mental hoops a person builds to justify a slow drift away from the life they actually love. Told entirely from inside Jon's head, this is a story about the difference between what a man does and what he lets himself feel, and how much damage the second one can do even when the first one never happens.
Book Two will step outside Jon's rationalizations and into his wife Jessica's world - the same two months, seen through the eyes of a woman whose intuition is telling her something her husband has never said out loud.