title: The Broken Heart Toolkit
author: P A Thorn
description: Paul Thorn is the author of five books and relationship columnist with Female First, the UK's largest independently owned women's lifestyle magazine. He has been a regular contributor to a variety of news and lifestyle publications for over two decades. In 2014 he was a finalist for Stonewalls Journalist of the Year. He lives in East Sussex, England.
zlib_text: Lonely at the Top
  
  by
  
  Ruth Davidson
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lonely at the Top
  
  Copyright © 2017 Ruth Davidson. All rights reserved.Cover image by Pexels from
  Pixabay
  
    
  
  To all those who’ve ever
  
  had broken hearts…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  [Title Page](index_split_000.html#filepos101)
  
  [Chapter One](index_split_003.html#filepos1463)
  
  [Chapter Two](index_split_004.html#filepos31094)
  
  [Chapter Three](index_split_005.html#filepos76631)
  
  [Chapter Four](index_split_006.html#filepos101300)
  
  [Chapter Five](index_split_007.html#filepos133116)
  
  [Chapter Six](index_split_008.html#filepos176768)
  
  [Chapter Seven](index_split_009.html#filepos220380)
  
  [Chapter Eight](index_split_010.html#filepos236278)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  Sierra Ray locked the back entrance of her small shop, preparing to leave work
  for the day, when her young sixteen-year-old assistant approached her from
  behind. “Sierra,” the assistant said, her spindly elbows poking out as she
  planted her hands on her tiny waist. “That same woman who ha