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."
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  Dark Legion
  
  The Lockman Chronicles #2
  
  Rob Cornell
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is for Chris Ogryski, a fellow traveler whose journey ended too soon.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  It was supposed to be a celebration.
  
  Teresa Stevenson forgot her sister couldn’t hold her liquor for spit. But it
  wasn’t like she could stop the girl from throwing back the nightclub’s
  signature drink they called Dragon’s Blood. She had every right to let loose.
  Little Sis had graduated from Harvard Law.
  
  Mandy heaved again into the toilet, and Teresa, being the good big sister,
  held her blonde locks back to keep them clear of any spatter. Mandy’s tortured
  groans echoed in the nightclub’s bathroom. When she stopped throwing up, she
  cried.
  
  “I’m so stupid. Why did I drink so much?”
  
  Teresa rubbed Mandy’s back and hushed her. “You were having fun. You deserved
  it.”
  
  “And I deserve this, too. I’m such a dumbass.”
  
  Teresa helped her sister out of the stall and rinse up at the sink, then
  guided her through the club toward