Breakup Doctor

The Breakup Doctor Is IN. Brook Ogden, licensed mental health counselor, is an expert at picking up the pieces after things come apart. She's coached her best friend through more dating disasters than the Bachelorette, and when her mom suddenly announces she's leaving the family home to resume her decades-delayed acting career (if their small-town Florida community theater qualifies), calm, levelheaded Brook holds the rest of the family together. Even when her traditional therapy practice literally collapses under a wrecking ball, 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 a breakup. But when, her own relationship suddenly crumbles, Brook finds herself helplessly engaging in some spectacularly bad breakup behavior of her own, including rebounding with the most inappropriate of men: a dangerously hot 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 the messy parts of life neatly-and sometimes you can't pull yourself together until you let yourself fall apart. The Breakup Doctor is the perfect beach read: a contemporary women's fiction novel full of humor and heart.

Brook Ogden has never encountered a broken heart she couldn't patch together. Her counseling practice as the Breakup Doctor-on call to help you shape up after a breakup- is so busy she's expanded to offer group sessions. (Turns out there are far more than fifty ways to leave your lover.) Her radio show and advice column have made her a local celebrity, and even her personal life, after some gruesome breakups of her own, is in recovery: Ben Garrett started out as a revenge date against an ex, but has turned into so much more. But, when Chip Santana, a former client she once shared a rather unprofessional midnight roll in the sand with, comes back into her life asking for her help, Brook can't say no. Except, while she's busy stitching up his relationship troubles, Chip reveals much more than a therapeutic interest in her. In the standoff between her heart and her hormones, Brook's cool, collected Wise Therapist persona begins to crack like thrown wedding china. She's yelling at recalcitrant cheating husbands. Offering crazy advice to radio callers. She's even hugging her clients. When the situation goes critical, Brook's forced into a decision she isn't ready to make-and the Breakup Doctor has to decide what kind of casualties she's willing to accept.

Running a massively successful relationship counseling practice should guarantee smooth sailing in a girl's own love life.... Breakup Doctor Brook Ogden has spent the last year sifting through the fallout from the disastrous decision that led to her unconscious uncoupling with boyfriend Ben Garrett. Despite advising her clients you can't be friends with an ex, she and Ben have somehow begun to stitch together a friendship-one 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 Brook navigates her newly volatile emotional life, an unwelcome surprise shows up on her doorstep: the ex-fiancé who broke her heart two years ago-one month before their wedding. Between her ex's desire to rekindle their attachment, her best friend Sasha's unexpected crisis, 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.