Contemporary Romance Novel-A Story of Love and Trust, Told in a Slow, Sensual Burn

"Have you ever wanted your lover to walk up behind you and whisper in your ear?"

"Have you ever envisioned his hand slowly moving down your hip then coming to rest, opening gently on your belly?"

-- Have you ever felt that safe?

The Broken Bottles Series explores intimacy and trust this deep, as Nicky Young fights her fears of abandonment from childhood, struggling to trust and embrace another in ways she never thought attainable.

Her father's alcoholism taught her well: "The next trauma is around the corner.  Something bad will inevitably shake your foundation, so keep yourself shut down and off." Nicky heard the message and refuses to let new relationships, especially men, into her life.

She tries desperately to run from her dysfunctional family and into a future at Stanford she's planned from when a little girl. That is until Ryan Tilton; a professional baseball player enters her life and challenges her to examine everything that keeps her heart bound in hurt.

Book 1, A Heart of Shadows begins the journey of Nicky Young. We cheer for her from the very first pages and enjoy turning them to discover if she can ever take the leap from her cliff that she grips onto so hard, digs into so deeply, trying her best to hold on to what she knows.

Can she jump into the light of chance and stamp out the pain of her past?

Can she embrace the joy and possible big love that's waiting?

A Shadow's Heart (A Heart in Shadows?? A Heart of Shadows?) explores the fears we nurture and how they can stop us in our tracks...if we let them.

The Broken Bottles Series is a spectacular love story of family, friends, lovers, and children. It's told in a unique way, examining the vivid details of intimacy and sex, and offers bare boned and raw stories of abandonment and mistrust.

Ultimately it's hope, faith, and trust in herself that Nicky must bring into her heart, which frees her to reach for the light of what can be. By allowing others "in" she might be able to forgive and recover from her fears, stepping out from her shadows.