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.
Purchase
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.
He
gripped his pillow tightly then threw the covers off his head, the moonlight
hitting him again, shining down an unmistakable truth, one he already knew all
too well. He needed Peyton. He needed her to love him.
Renee's Review
4 Stars
Perfectly Broken is a story of overwhelming heartache and trauma and fighting to overcome the nightmares that haunt Peyton on a daily basis. When Reed comes along, Peyton's world is thrown upside down and she is forced to face her demons head on. She is forced to open herself to learn to trust again and to be loved which she doesn't think she deserves.
Prescott Lane delivers a story that is raw and emotional with a storyline that is sure to capture it's reader. It was touching and brought out so many feelings and emotions in myself as a reader, which is so important. I found myself going from happy to sad and at times found myself frustrated and anxious. I fell in love with the realistic characters which had unique and different personalities. I also loved the true and honest friendships Prescott created between the characters.
While the writing style could use a tweaking here and there, Prescott sure has a promising future as a really great author.
Prescott Lane delivers a story that is raw and emotional with a storyline that is sure to capture it's reader. It was touching and brought out so many feelings and emotions in myself as a reader, which is so important. I found myself going from happy to sad and at times found myself frustrated and anxious. I fell in love with the realistic characters which had unique and different personalities. I also loved the true and honest friendships Prescott created between the characters.
While the writing style could use a tweaking here and there, Prescott sure has a promising future as a really great author.
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.
Connect With Prescott Lane
Website - http://www.authorprescottlane.com
Facebook - facebook.com/PrescottLane1
Twitter - www.twitter.com/prescottlane1
Instagram - http://instagram.com/prescottlane1
Pinterest - http://www.pinterest.com/PrescottLane1/
No comments:
Post a Comment
We LOVE to hear what you our followers think, thank you for your wonderful comments. <3