Successful restaurateur Lucien Black s blue-green eyes and unattainable attitude drive women wild. But his abandonment issues and criminal past have left him emotionally closed off. When a familiar face shows up for a job interview at his nightclub, the ache he has tried to forget tears at his heart it s the girl who once healed him...and then abandoned him.
Darcy MacBride still remembers Lucien s delicate touch when they were both wildly in love teenagers. His gorgeous eyes had soothed her hurt after she d been dumped off at the orphanage where Lucien lived. Darcy felt his jagged edges fit perfectly into her own, and she d planned to spend the rest of her life with him until a mysterious man warned her away. Now, fourteen years later, she s ready to endure the torture of Lucien s indifference and having him as her boss...just to be near him. But when it seems that they might finally take up where they left off, a devastating secret buried in their past threatens to tear them apart again.
L.A. Fiore s story of smoldering love recaptures the tormented romance of "Beautifully Damaged.""