Perfectly Broken by Prescott Lane
Publication date: March 2014
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Publication date: March 2014
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
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.
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.
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.”
~Veda's Review~
Peyton is broken, or so she assumes, she lives alone in the
house she grew up in with her grandparents. Her parents died when she was very
young and all the family she has left now is her grams. She lives a very
mundane life, getting up every morning to run, shower, put on her baggy clothes
and head to the bakery she owns. Such a beautiful woman on the inside, and
outside as well, she hides behind her baggy clothes because, even after all the
years of therapy, she still believes that she was to blame for what happen to
her that horrible night in college. She doesn’t date, in fact she pushes men
away. She spends most of her time at her bakery or with Quinn, her best friend,
when she can pull her away from her boyfriend Bret. Through Quinn’s boyfriend
is how Peyton meets Reed. Reed, he’s quite the charmer, can get any woman he
wants and he knows it. He jumps from bed to bed, girl to girl, not wanting a
relationship with anyone. When Reed meets Peyton for the first time he’s taken
aback, not sure what to think of this beautiful girl with the most beautiful
baby blue eyes. He instantly wants her and she also finds him interesting and
attractive. But it’s not that easy for Reed, Peyton isn’t some prize he can win
and toss away when he’s done, she has more self-worth for herself than to let
this man use her. She’s, of course, heard some of the stories about is sleeping
habits and instantly says no to a date when asked. But there is something about
her that Reed just can’t let go of, she’s not like any other woman he’s met,
she different. He’s not giving up, and after time he wears her down enough that
she agrees to a date. Who wouldn’t agree to a date after all of the ways he
shown her she was special to him. She’s not just a buffet to him, she’s a 5
star meal. For someone who was a player, which he was, he sure did do a
complete 360. He’s a changed man, but will both of their pasts ruin what they
have gotten to know and love about each other? They’re both keeping something
away from the other, not wanting the other to know for the same reasons.
This book was amazing, I loved every minute of it. It was a
long wait for him to get him to trust her, but when he did it really got good.
Don’t get me wrong, I said I loved every minute of it, it’s just that it gets
better and better. I read this in one night, I couldn’t sleep until I finished
it. It was well worth the massive book hangover and the two hours of sleep I
got. I recommend this book to anyone who loves to read a very beautiful, very
well written story. I give Perfectly Broken 5 stars.
~About The Author~
Prescott Lane is originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, and graduated from Centenary College in 1997 with a degree in sociology. She went on to Tulane University to receive her MSW in 1998, after which she worked with developmentally delayed and disabled children. She currently resides in New Orleans with her husband and two children.
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