title: Hope And Possibility Through Trauma
author:  Don Shetterly 
description: Don Shetterly is a licensed massage therapist, specializing in trauma recovery. He also composes and records relaxing piano music that reflects his life, past and present, and writes about his experiences on the Mind-Body Thoughts blog.
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  _This time, he’s not giving her up without a fight._
  
  After two grueling years caring for her terminally ill mother, Hope O’Shea is
  eager to start fresh.
  
  Except her first interior-decorating job is for a popular BDSM club—part of
  her kinky past she misses, but had to leave behind.
  
  Worse, she somehow ends up in the arms of her ex-Dom, Gabriel Cassidy. The one
  man who could strip her emotions bare, so bare that rather than reveal her
  painful history, she ran.
  
  Gabriel never understood why Hope left without even a goodbye. Determined to
  get answers, he entices her to Maison Domine for a weekend on the promise of
  meeting the owner for another decorating job. Except being with her again
  reminds him why he loved her in the first place—and why she shouldn’t trust
  him as her Dom.
  
  As their attraction reignites, Hope is transported back to the sub-space bliss
  she felt only with Gabe.
  
  Then a nightmare from her past shows up at the club, and with no other safe
  plac