title: The Missing Piece: Solving the Puzzle of Self
author:  Claudia Black 
description: passed since Claudia Black's million-copy bestseller, It Will Never Happen to Me, set countless individuals on the path to self-discovery. Now, in The Missing Piece, Black teams up with therapist and lecturer Leslie Drozd to give you the courage, practical information, and the loving guidance to take the next step on your journey to wholeness.<br />In this new book, Black and Drozd explore the life crisis experienced by individuals consumed with the nagging feeling that "something's missing." These vague, unsettling feelings often take the form of unexplained anger or fear, a sense of inadequacy or ambivalence, the inability to commit, or depression that comes and goes. They trace this condition to the conflicting and often disowned pieces of self in all of us that compete for attention and expression: critic, pusher, judge, victim, spiritual seeker, perfectionist, nurturer, protector, aggressor, and procrastinator, among others. Only by defining and embracing all aspects of the self--both
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  A HUSBAND SHE CAN NO LONGER DENY
  
  Eight years ago Claudia, Countess of Ulverdale, said goodbye to her husband,
  Anthony, when he left to fight against Napoleon.
  
  Now, both working as spies, they find their separate missions bring them
  together by chance in a Parisian brothel. Claudia’s independence—and her
  virtue—are compromised.
  
  Claudia finds herself caged within a marriage bed full of lies as fiery anger
  inflames the rising passion between them. It is only a matter of time before
  Claudia gives in to a husband she hardly knows—but one she can’t resist....
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The earl scanned the room for a moment or two, apparently oblivious to the
  heads turned in his direction and the excited whispered conjecture that
  rippled outward from behind myriad fans.
  
  Then he saw her. His blue gaze meshed with hers, steely and quietly intent.
  Its expression sent a frisson down her spine. In that look she read many
  things, none of them in the least bit re