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: Table of Contents
   
  Chapter I
  Chapter II
  Chapter III
  Chapter IV
  Chapter V
  Chapter VI
  Chapter VII
  Chapter VIII
  Chapter IX
  Chapter X
  Chapter XI
  Chapter XII
  
  Chapter I
  My finding her grisly remains and destroying the doglike creature which I'd thought had killed her
  were pretty much the way it started.And we had been lovers, which I suppose was how things had really
  commenced. Long before.
  Perhaps I should never have taken her on that shadow-walks which led to denials that took her away
  from me, down dark ways and into the studio of Victor Melman, a nasty occultist I later had to kill-the
  same Victor Melman who was himself the dupe of Luke and Jasra.But now, perhaps-just barely-I might
  have been in a position to forgive myself for what I'd thought I'd done, for it seemed that I hadn't really
  done it after all. Almost.
  It was when I drove my knife into the side of the mysterious sorcerer Mask, who had been on my
  case for some time, that I discovered that Mask was really Julia.My half broth