Contemporary Romance
Date Published: March 2014
Synopsis:
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.”
My Review: 4 1/2 stars
This was a beautifully written book about two broken people. They are broken in different ways, but together, they make sense. Peyton is so real to me. Her issues are real, and the way she handles them are real. She was brutalized and so she feels the need to hide her body, to be invisible, so that no one pays attention to her. She needs that to feel safe. She is content to hide from life until she meets Reed. He is a man with his own issues, but somehow he connects with Peyton. He SEES her, and that scares the crap out of her, because he is doing everything he can to help make things better for her. Reed is patient and eventually slips pasts Peyton's defenses that keep him out. The journey they take together is not easy, but it is so worthwhile. Yes, there are twists and turns along the road, there are in any relationship. This one is SO worth it, for both of them. Love heals many wounds, and Prescott showed just a few ways in this book. Fantastic book, pick it up, you won't be disappointed.
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