title: Letting Go into Perfect Love: Discovering the Extraordinary after Abuse
author:  Gwendolyn M. Plano 
description: Letting Go into Perfect Love is an unflinchingly honest account of one woman's journey to spiritual and emotional redemption. In writing about her own lessons in learning the redemptive power of love through suffering, spiritual practice, and grace, Gwen Plano allows her readers to reconnect with the painful moments in their own lives and to use those moments to walk a path toward healing and life fulfillment. Plano teaches us that every experience is a lesson; every person, a teacher, that our goal here is not to accept suffering, but to transcend it.<br /> Brenda Borron, Professor of English, Irvine Valley College<br /><br /> Letting Go Into Perfect Love is an inspirational story of the quest for personal wholeness and love. Gwen was reminded by her spiritual counselor that we are born to become love. Such a message is difficult to understand when we are captive to expectations, habits, and behaviors that undermine our ability to authentically love ourselves. In Gwens case, the reminder motivated her to search for self-understanding and wholeness, which are the prerequisites of self-love. It is said that the difference between try and triumph is a lot of umph. Through Gwens many trials and challenges, she applied a lot of umph and charted a heroic path. When a person embarks on the journey of awakening, they begin to create a new future, and the quality of that future is the result of personal intention not driven by past experiences and fate. There is much to be learned from this beautifully written story. <br />  Stanley Stefancic, Retired Teacher and Director, Hoffman Institute <br /><br />  a courageous account of the awakening of self, of personal growth, resiliency, and finding self-love and a healthy positive relationship based upon mutual love and respect. <br />  Stanley Stefancic, Retired Teacher and Director, Hoffman Institute<br /><br />"The mystical magnitude of her luminous love embraces the reader. This is a redemptive memoir with healing guidelines for those confined in or exposed to abusive relationships, for any who have endured family outrages, and for those wishing to accompany the writer on a journey towards self-realization." San Francisco Book Review
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  SCANDALOUS PASSION
  
  
  When she reached the door, Gwendolyn whirled around so quickly that her body
  collided with the viscount’s. His arms came around her, to prevent her from
  falling.
  
  “Oh, do forgive my clumsiness, my lord. I fear—”
  
  He never gave her the opportunity to finish the sentence. He slid his right
  hand around the back of her neck, angled her head upward and then his mouth
  came down boldly upon hers. Captivated, Gwendolyn felt utterly at his mercy,
  as he coaxed and teased, modulating the pressure and angle of his mouth,
  urging her to respond.
  
  Catching her lower lip between his teeth, he nibbled brashly. Gwendolyn
  gasped, then shivered when the hot, wet tip of his tongue edged out, skimming
  across her lips. They throbbed at the contact and she opened her mouth.
  Misunderstanding, he seized the opportunity and slipped his tongue between her
  lips.
  
  Something instantly changed. The undercurrent of attraction Gwendolyn had been
  fight