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Broken Heart
Broken Heart
Broken Heart
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Perfection isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Stacey Barlow-Barrett has the perfect life–or, at least, the illusion of one. She's married to the man her parents approved, and she's making it work. But keeping up appearances is wearing her down. Her husband, Jace, wants to start a family. Her former lover, Mason, is a business associate she can't cut off, and he twists the knife at every opportunity. Trying to make everyone happy–everyone except herself–has her on the verge of a breakdown.

When Jace's best friend moves in, everything that seemed tenuously tolerable is now completely unbearable, and Stacey realizes something is very wrong in her marriage. Jace is keeping up appearances too, and it's at Stacey's expense.

Mason is the only one she can turn to for help. . .if he can forgive her for marrying Jace while the sheets were still warm from their last encounter. And even if he does forgive her, and she does dig her way out of the mess her marriage has become, Stacey may not be ready for what he needs in return: love.

CONTENT WARNING: This book contains some mild m/m encounters, language and violent situations that may make some readers uncomfortable.

69,000 Words
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLyrical Press
Release dateOct 1, 2013
ISBN9781616504885
Broken Heart
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Laura Browning

Laura Browning graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in Journalism mainly because a wise person, namely her father, suggested Journalism might be a steadier income than trying to write romance. She has worked in television markets in Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and North Carolina. In 2001, she won a Regional Emmy for her work writing and producing. After dealing with reality for far longer than she should have, the urge to spin stories from the fiber of fiction outweighed her desire to report only the facts. Now she combines her writing career with teaching English. Browning lives in the South with her husband, son, and a menagerie of animals that runs the gamut from horses to a lizard. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, photography, baking and contemplating actually having time to ride her horses.

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