Fire Heart (Broken Bottle Series Book 2)
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amazing Sex, Sari Lockner, Ph.D.
The Romance Writer’s Phrase Book, Jean Kent, Candace Shelton
Thinking Like A Romance Writer, Dahlia Evans
The SEXaurus, Stefanie Olsen
The Emotion Thesaurus, Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi
Organizations/Web sites
www.sexualityresources.com
www.crimescene.com
pandys.org
www.joyfulheartfoundation.org
Acknowledgments
As with any project, there are many people who influenced my journey. Some friends exist only in my memories, and others have crossed my path in sweet or dramatic ways. I hold all of you to my heart, even if you’re not mentioned below.
For my beautiful sister, whose life ended much too early—I understand you more now than I ever did.
For my father, at times your disease took you over. I miss you. I wish I had the maturity back then to have understood. I couldn’t have stopped you, but I would’ve spoken differently. You gave me so many twisted gifts, and I thank you in spite of everything.
Claude and Aaron, I love you guys so much that sometimes I think I’m sick because the joy is so mountainous and hurt so deep.
Louise—I couldn’t have done this without you.
My sweet girlfriends from childhood—Colleen, Patty, Lorraine, Kathie, Marilyn
TS Babes: (Santo, Spanky, Uno, GG, Wiseone, BL, Nine, Catnip xxoo) thanks for allowing me so much.
Mom, you have problems saying I love you, but I get it now.
About the Author
PAMELA TAEUFFER, BIOGRAPHY
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My passion is writing books that tell a love story and family saga of leaving old fears behind as the characters embrace intimacy and transition to joy. My first series, Broken Bottles, details those fears of growing up in a family battling alcoholism. Along with the struggle and pain of a parent's rage, there is intelligence, strength, and survival. The challenge is to love intimately in all relationships. For children of trauma, it can take years to let another person come close. When they do? It's like rainbows cover their heart.
Slowly, you'll read how my characters become vulnerable, reach for deep, sensual intimacy, and try desperately to let go of their fears. They struggle and risk everything to trust others—and themselves. My stories are about daring to take the baby steps that let them really come alive and in every way, experience and give love.
MAKING MONEY TO CREATE: The small, vacation rental/ property management company I run with my husband and son in Sonoma County, California allows me to have the money for my creative life. I love that I was born and raised in San Francisco. My father introduced me to baseball when I was six. I've rung a cable car bell, and went to concerts in Golden Gate Park with my sister where Jimmy Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Santana once played.
WHAT I'VE DONE/AM DOING – IT'S A JOURNEY OF DREAMS: Broken Bottles is a four part series. Two books, Shadow Heart and Fire Heart are ready. Soon to follow are Jagged Heart and Amazing Heart. I'm honored to have 3 poems in an anthology called The Beats Go On, and a story in Sisters Born, Sisters Found. I have released the first book in a series for introverts called, The Introverts Guide to the Galaxy: Attending Conferences.
My Dream? To create beautifully decorate and custom journals with gorgeous paper that accompany with each book series: The Introvert's Journal, A Family Saga Journal, My Body's Journal, and Trauma: You Can't Stop Me Journal. Journaling was a lifesaver for me. I was in shock. You may be in shock. Don't let that keep your heart frozen!
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Shadow Heart
What if you were afraid to even turn the doorknob to your front door because of the What if family dysfunction that waited inside: rage, mental and physical abuse, the fear of sharing love, a kind word or the embrace of your mother. What would it take to bring you out of the shadows, breaking out of the numbness you've used to protect your heart? Could you take a risk that might change everything? A sexy, professional baseball player wants my mind, body and heart. All my life I've controlled whom I let get close to me. The light of risk means terror. This is the slow, intimate reveal of how I finally learned to open my heart to another person, and just as important, how I learned to trust myself.
Jagged Heart
I walked quietly so I didn’t disturb the fragile web that stretched throughout our home: Nothing good would last; I would ultimately be abandoned; my feelings didn't matter; as long as I looked okay, I was okay. My name is Nicky Young. I stay away from hurt by not risking too much. Ryan Tilton, a professional baseball player, has swept me off my feet and I can't let go. I refuse to be intimate, but then I’m desperate to fall into his arms. Adding to my fears, I’ve learned about Jesse, a beautiful and successful artist and socialite from his past, may have moved to San Francisco to follow him. My boundaries are softening, melting, being redefined, becoming “Jagged.”
Amazing Heart
It's amazing, but I am filled with the desire to open my heart and love another, a new person, out of the comfort zone of my childhood, not a relative, not family and breaking through every chain of dysfunction I'd bound myself with.
Amazing is how I feel, that I seem to have the love of someone who will accept me for who I am, a bundle of insecurities and fears, wrapped inside my body of round curves that I tend to cover in jeans and sweatshirts.
Having someone who seems to want me in spite of all my demons—it feels as if I'm set free! I walk with a light around me: bright, open, shutting out the darkness of my youth—the alcoholism of my father, his rage, his violence, my mom's codependence and support of his addiction—I know I can risk everything now. The freedom to ask for what I want; dare I dream of feeling safe enough, trusting myself enough to share my thoughts, wishes, fears . . . dare I actually hope in another person? Won't his promises fall apart? Am I really free? Can I dare to really, really, be alive and through being vulnerable, open to deep, sensual, intimacy?
Open Heart Press
Broken Bottle Series
www.openheartpress.net