His outward scars are only a fraction of the emotional scars and pain he harbours inside. We meet our hero Paul who was disfigured after being injured during his time in Afghanistan. Not to mention that I’m a sucker for a retelling of Fairy Tales, and with the theme of this story being based on Beauty and the Beast…even better and for the I did enjoy this story.
“Your soul’s more crippled than your leg.”īroken was an easy story to become lost in. Now Paul and Olivia have to decide: Will they help each other heal? Or are they forever broken? And the more she slips past his defenses, the more keeping his distance is impossible. But Paul doesn’t count on the beautiful twenty-two-year-old who makes him long for things that he can never have. He’ll do anything to stay in self-imposed exile, even accept his father’s ultimatum that Paul tolerate the newest caretaker for three months or lose his inheritance. Paul Langdon doesn’t need a mirror to show him he’s no longer the hotshot quarterback he was before the war. and whose smoldering gaze and forbidden touch might be her undoing. Instead, he’s a brooding twenty-four-year-old who has no intention of being Olivia’s path to redemption. Only, Olivia’s client isn’t the grateful elderly man she’s expecting.
But Olivia has a secret: helping an injured war veteran reenter society isn’t about charity-it’s about penance. When Olivia Middleton abandons the glamour of Park Avenue for a remote, coastal town in Maine, everyone assumes she’s being the kind do-gooder she’s always been. Lauren Layne’s New Adult novel tells the story of a girl with secrets, a guy with scars, and a love that could save them both… or destroy them.
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