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
“Sometimes it’s better to push people away, so you don’t
hurt them,” Peyton said, “and they don’t hurt you.”
“Bullshit!”
Peyton shook her head.
“I’m never going to be whole again.”
“That’s bullshit, too.
I won’t have talk like that, Miss Peyton. I just won’t have it.” Dr. Lorraine cocked her head to the side. “It’s time for a change in direction -- a
serious change of direction. This is
what we are going to do. You made a lot
of progress with Reed – lots of good oral and other stuff. But now you’ve cut him off, and I see you
backsliding. I don’t like to see
it. I won’t allow it.” She stroked her chin then cracked her
knuckles in preparation for some great declaration. “I’m prescribing a little retail therapy.”
“What?” Peyton cried.
“Yes, that’s what I’m prescribing. You get that friend of yours, Quinn, and hit
the shops – Canal Place, Magazine Street, St. Charles Avenue, wherever,” Dr.
Lorraine ordered, her whole body bouncing.
“I don’t want to see you in those sad, baggy ass clothes anymore. Just looking at them, they mess with my head,
and they screw up my whole day. You ever
think about how they make me feel?”
“No,” Peyton said with a laugh.
“Makes me sad. I hate
them. So I want new shoes, clothes,
athletic wear, undergarments! Everything
new. Got it?”
“How is this therapy?”
“Honey, you’re hiding again.
You’ve flipped your sex switch back to off, and I’m not about to let it
hibernate in some frozen tundra again for years. We’ve worked too damn hard. You need to get in touch with your sexuality
without a man helping you do it. You
have to do it. And clothes are the
perfect place to start.”
Peyton shrugged. “I
don’t feel like it.”
“You don’t feel like it?
Tough shit! I didn’t feel like
getting my pap smear last week, but I did.”
Peyton smiled. “It
just seems like a waste of time and money.”
“Well, if you don’t want to do it through clothes, I can
prescribe something else. Maybe a pole
dancing class?”
“I don’t think so.”
“Or daily masturbation?”
Peyton rolled her eyes.
“Fine, I’ll get the clothes.”
“Good,” Dr. Lorraine said, writing in Peyton’s chart, as if
filling out a prescription to take to the drugstore. “Among other things, I want you to get some
power panties.”
“Power panties?” Has
she been talking to Bret?
“Sexy underwear,” Dr. Lorraine said, still writing. “They can make a woman feel very
powerful.” She put down her pen and
looked at Peyton. “When a man wants to
be taken seriously, he usually wears a red tie.
Ever notice that in presidential debates? Lots of red ties. Red is the color of power.” Dr. Lorraine waved her hand and snapped her
fingers. “So get yourself some red
panties, girl! Take back your power! Do it for yourself!” She handed Peyton her prescription.
“I didn’t realize my power was in my underwear.”
ABOUT THE 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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