title: Why Did He Break Up With Me: Lessons in Love, Loss & Letting Go
author:  DeBora M. Ricks 
description: DeBora M. Ricks is an author, speaker, relationship guru, writing coach, publishing consultant, radio and TV personality, producer, and proud mother. She has worked more than a decade with abused and battered women as an attorney, advocate, coach, and counselor in the criminal jus- tice and civil systems. She is passionately committed to helping women take charge of their lives, heal after a breakup, and let go in love. She has also worked three and a half years in a residential drug and alcohol program helping men and women untangle their legal issues. DeBora is the editor of more than ten books, nonfiction and works of fiction. In 2010, she did her first book reading and signing in Paris, France. She currently lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. To buy additional copies of Why Did He Break Up With Me? and Love Addicted, or to contact DeBora for a book reading, signing or talk, go to her web site at www.DeBoraRicks.com.
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  This former flame is  
  too hot to handle.
  
  
  “You should sing with me, Tracy.  
  We should make music together.”
  
  
  Can I trust him? After a bad breakup, my ex-fiancé is holding out the olive
  branch. Since parting, Dash Smith has become a country superstar, while my
  career has taken a nosedive. His offer is tempting, and the man is
  irresistible. And that’s the problem. We have so much history, so much
  heartbreak, so much blistering passion. And I can’t afford to get burned
  again... Can I?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “I don’t want to date or be friends. But I wouldn’t mind sleeping with you
  again.”
  
  
  He went silent on the other end.
  
  
  “Dash?” I doubled-checked. “Are you still there?”
  
  
  “Yeah, I just... Tracy, are you asking me for a one-night stand?”
  
  
  “I’m asking you to have an affair. But I have some rules you’ll have to agree
  to.”
  
  
  “Let’s hear them.”
  
  
  “First, you can’t sleep with anyone except me while we’re together. Second, no
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