by Phoebe Fox
10. Do you think Ben is the right guy for Brook? Why or why not?
11. Brook begins a new Breakup Doc practice via support groups, so she can help more people at once. Do you think the idea of people experiencing heartbreak and talking about it together is really a viable one? Why or why not? Is it something you think would appeal to you in that situation?
12. Were there warning signs that Brook missed in Chip Santana for his later behavior? Have you ever had a relationship with the “warning signs”? Did you ignore them, or heed them? Why?
13. Is Chip abusive, or just a guy who lost his temper? Should Brook make sure he faces consequences for his actions, or should she avoid potentially derailing any future progress he might continue to make?
About the Author
Phoebe Fox is a contributor and regular columnist for a number of national, regional, and local publications (she currently writes about relationships for the Huffington Post). She has been a movie, theater, and book reviewer; a screenwriter, and has even been known to help with homework revisions for nieces and nephews. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two excellent dogs.
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HEART CONDITIONS
Phoebe Fox
The Breakup Doctor Series (#3)
(From the Henery Press Chick Lit Collection)
After more than half a year, Breakup Doctor Brook Ogden is finally sorting things out after her own unconscious uncoupling with Ben Garrett. Despite advising her clients you can’t be friends with an ex, she and Ben have stitched together a friendship Brook hopes is slowly turning into more—that is, until Ben introduces his new girlfriend, Perfect Pamela, a paragon of womanly virtues who is everything Brook is not.
While the formerly always-in-control Brook navigates her newly naked emotional life and wrangles her complicated feelings about Ben, an unwelcome surprise shows up on her doorstep—the ex-fiancé who broke her heart two years ago. Michael’s sudden abandonment one month before their wedding was the match that lit the fuse of Brook’s own breakup breakdown, leaving her with a criminal record and an unwanted tattoo—and eventually torpedoing her relationship with Ben.
Between her ex’s desire to rekindle their attachment, her best friend Sasha’s unexpected crisis that jeopardizes her relationship with Brook’s brother Stu, and her own unsquelchable feelings for Ben, Brook finds herself questioning the personal progress she’s made in the last two years—and threatened with the highest-stakes Breakup Doctor failures she’s ever faced.
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THE BREAKUP DOCTOR
Phoebe Fox
The Breakup Doctor Series (#1)
(From the Henery Press Chick Lit Collection)
Call Brook Ogden a matchmaker-in-reverse. Let others bring people together; Brook, licensed mental health counselor, picks up the pieces after things come apart. When her own therapy practice collapses, she maintains perfect control: landing on her feet with a weekly advice-to-the-lovelorn column and a successful consulting service as the Breakup Doctor: on call to help you shape up after you breakup.
Then her relationship suddenly crumbles and Brook finds herself engaging in almost every bad-breakup behavior she preaches against. And worse, she starts a rebound relationship with the most inappropriate of men: a dangerously sexy bartender with anger-management issues—who also happens to be a former patient.
As her increasingly out-of-control behavior lands her at rock-bottom, Brook realizes you can’t always handle a messy breakup neatly—and that sometimes you can’t pull yourself together until you let yourself fall apart.
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Buried under a mistaken identity, unable to seek help from her family, her hot streak runs cold until her landlord Bradley Cole steps in. Make that her landlord, lawyer, and love interest. With his help, Davis must win this high stakes game before her luck runs out.
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As a struggling waitress and part-time college student, Rose Strickland’s life is stalled in the slow lane. But when her close friend, Axton, disappears, Rose suddenly finds herself serving up more than hot coffee and flapjacks. Now she’s hashing it out with sexy bad guys and scrambling to find clues in a race to save Axton before his time runs out.
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