Blurb
Even after years of trauma therapy, Peyton still believes
she’s broken. She has little desire to date or show off her natural beauty, content
simply to hang out with her best friends and run her pie shop in New Orleans.
But her world turns upside-down when a handsome architect and self-confessed
player shows up in her shop and thinks she’s perfect, much more than the usual
hook-up. While Peyton does her best to resist his charms, believing she could
never be enough for him, she can’t deny the obvious heat between them. With
Reed determined to have her, Peyton must decide whether to continue to hide
behind her apron and baggy clothes or take a chance and share her scars with
Reed, a man with a playboy reputation and scars of his own -- a dark past he
can’t possibly share with Peyton, not after learning the horrors she’s endured.
But if they can find a way to trust each other, and themselves, they just might
be able to heal, to save each other, to live perfectly broken together.
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Excerpt
Reed woke up in a sweat, breathing heavily, as if from a bad dream. But it hadn’t been bad at all. He’d been dancing with Peyton in Audubon Park, feeling her soft skin, tasting her lips, smelling the vanilla. He cursed the dream was over then looked outside, the moon shining brightly through his bedroom window. He thought about calling her and reached for his phone. He saw it was the middle of the night, so any call would have to wait.
Then he decided he wasn’t going to call her at all. He’d be seeing her tonight at the engagement
party -- for the first time in 36 days.
He flipped through the photos of her on his phone, landing on the one he
loved the most, her resting her head on his chest, a small smile on her pink
lips. He’d give anything to go back to
that moment, to have her in his arms again.
It seemed as if Griffin had held her more than he ever did. He threw the covers over his head, trying to
get back to sleep and desperate to return to his dream.
But thoughts of tonight, thoughts of Peyton, kept him
awake. Over several weeks, he’d tried to
let her go but just couldn’t. Despite
all the boxing, all the exercise, trying to bury himself in work, he wasn’t
strong enough. He’d fallen in love – the
first time ever – and now couldn’t recover. She’d been his soft spot, and he’d hit
concrete without her, shattering his heart.
He had no idea if she was as tortured, conflicted, unsettled as he was,
or whether she’d just moved on without a second thought. He hoped she felt like he did. But she
sure found a roommate pretty damn quick!
His talk with Quinn helped put some things in perspective, but he
still didn’t trust Griffin living in Peyton’s house, just a few doors down from
her bedroom.
His mind flashed to the possibility that she was bringing
some guy tonight. Griffin? And he wasn’t going
to ask Bret if he knew whether she was.
That would be pathetic and weak.
He needed to be calm and strong, though not too strong. He couldn’t just wail on some new guy
tonight, not even Griffin -- no matter what he saw, even if her lips, God
forbid, touched Griffin’s or some other man’s.
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Author
Prescott Lane is the author of
First Position and her new release, Perfectly Broken. She is originally from
Little Rock, Arkansas, and graduated from Centenary College with a degree in
sociology. She went on to receive her MSW from Tulane University, after which
she worked with developmentally delayed and disabled children. She married her
college sweetheart, and they currently live in New Orleans with their two
children and two crazy dogs. Prescott started writing at the age of five, and
sold her first story about a talking turtle to her father for a quarter. She
later turned to writing romance novels because there aren't enough happily ever
afters in real life.
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