title: Picking Up The Pieces: A Guide to Recovery from Betrayal and a Broken Heart
author: Dinah Temple
description: "Readers come away with a more positive outlook on life, fueled to rebuild their self-esteem and start again with confidence and hope. They learn how to survive the tragic loss of love, journey through the tunnel of pain and come out on the other side triumphant, strong, still sane, secure and ready to love again. The need to rebuild a new life is another opportunity to get it right. There is life after loss and readers will emerge from the darkness stronger, wiser, and better able to handle the challenges to be faced in the search for unconditional love."
zlib_text: Veronica tries to cope with losing her sister but is drawn to everything that
  seemingly took Megan away. A magical stone. Rune staves. A Viking king. The
  far distant past. It all seems too impossible to believe. Until she slides
  down a snow swept hill near Maine’s, Raven’s Nest cliffs straight into a
  reality she never could have imagined.
  
    
  
  Of dragon blood and brother to the king, Raknar Sigdir ‘the hunter’ is
  determined to welcome any woman from the future if it means he can conquer
  anew for his people. For those he cares about most. However, Veronica, the
  irresistible woman thrust back in time, soon has his mind less on loot and
  more on all the things he forgot about himself.
  
    
  
  Honor. Decency. Pride. The ability to love.
  
    
  
  A pact with the seers hangs in the balance when a ninth century Viking gives
  in to his heart to protect a modern day woman from a sworn, powerful enemy…his
  former wife. Rash actions mean an uncertain outcome. A new fate unfolds. An
  ultimatum is given. A cl