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The Damaged One
Augustus Pierce had always been responsible for his younger siblings. Born to a drug-addicted prostitute, Augustus and his siblings never had a chance. He gave them a chance. He got them out. He gave them a life. But was it all for nothing?
Jackie, Augustus’ youngest sister, was the most innocent. The damaged one. She fell into the same drug abyss that swallowed their mother whole. When Augustus gets that call, the one he had secretly known would come, but the one he prayed he would never get, he has to learn the truth. He has to find the person to blame.
Toby Voss was a student psychotherapist. More importantly, she was the last person to see Jackie alive. Augustus believes she is the one who has the answers he needed. It doesn’t help that she happens to be the most beautiful woman he has ever met. Or that her touch awakens something in his soul that died long ago.
Augustus is determined to fulfill one last promise to Jackie. He just has to find a way to ignore the primal need to bury himself in the one woman who can fulfill his every dream or shatter his very existence.
Jackie, Augustus’ youngest sister, was the most innocent. The damaged one. She fell into the same drug abyss that swallowed their mother whole. When Augustus gets that call, the one he had secretly known would come, but the one he prayed he would never get, he has to learn the truth. He has to find the person to blame.
Toby Voss was a student psychotherapist. More importantly, she was the last person to see Jackie alive. Augustus believes she is the one who has the answers he needed. It doesn’t help that she happens to be the most beautiful woman he has ever met. Or that her touch awakens something in his soul that died long ago.
Augustus is determined to fulfill one last promise to Jackie. He just has to find a way to ignore the primal need to bury himself in the one woman who can fulfill his every dream or shatter his very existence.
- GenresRomance
101 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 18, 2014
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June 25, 2014
A waste of time.
At first it seems like a good story is building and then you get a lot of loveliness sex and very little of the storyline. Just when you think the storyline is going to return to what happened to Jackie the book just ends. Or I should say there was no ending. Book two is supposed to be a continuation of the story. Usually each book in a series tells a complete story. This was very disappointing.
At first it seems like a good story is building and then you get a lot of loveliness sex and very little of the storyline. Just when you think the storyline is going to return to what happened to Jackie the book just ends. Or I should say there was no ending. Book two is supposed to be a continuation of the story. Usually each book in a series tells a complete story. This was very disappointing.
January 10, 2015
I probably would have liked this more, except that I lived in Denton all through high school. To my recollection there is no bar close to Texas Women's University and I was unsettled by the depiction of Denton P.D. as being apathetic or, at best, ineffective. It's not a high crime city despite being home to two big Universities.
August 29, 2014
This book… frustrated me… and not in a good way.
It was a brilliant story idea with relatable characters, which is not always found in books. It’s different, I haven’t read books like it before with a similar story so that’s something! The characters were interesting, and I wanted to know more about them. It was well written, only a couple of really obvious grammar errors caught my attention as they were missing words “she would never slip into down the slippery slope” and also “a woman who was afraid to after what she craved”
However, though I enjoyed what I read I found it very predictable and that word came to mind so often when something new occurred or there was a new ‘twist’ that I couldn’t shift it and forget about it.
My biggest issue with this book, is something every reader should be aware of before reading – it is NOT a self-contained story within a larger story as a series should be! My understanding of series books is that even the first part should be a standalone story contained within a larger story that is the series. Now I don’t mean that everything in the opening book should be solved by the end so that there is no need to read the second book, but this story did not have a beginning, middle and an end within the book, which makes it absolutely a pointless read unless you’re one hundred percent sure you’re going to read the next book. It makes it impossible to pass any sort of judgement on the story because you’ve only read half of it! That to me is a sales tactic and a bad one, I will not be purchasing the second book because of this fact.
Please, please, please will authors learn to write a series with each book being a self-contained story? As it gives a real bad name to series authors when a large story is simply split into parts with no beginning, middle and end to the individual parts!
It was a brilliant story idea with relatable characters, which is not always found in books. It’s different, I haven’t read books like it before with a similar story so that’s something! The characters were interesting, and I wanted to know more about them. It was well written, only a couple of really obvious grammar errors caught my attention as they were missing words “she would never slip into down the slippery slope” and also “a woman who was afraid to after what she craved”
However, though I enjoyed what I read I found it very predictable and that word came to mind so often when something new occurred or there was a new ‘twist’ that I couldn’t shift it and forget about it.
My biggest issue with this book, is something every reader should be aware of before reading – it is NOT a self-contained story within a larger story as a series should be! My understanding of series books is that even the first part should be a standalone story contained within a larger story that is the series. Now I don’t mean that everything in the opening book should be solved by the end so that there is no need to read the second book, but this story did not have a beginning, middle and an end within the book, which makes it absolutely a pointless read unless you’re one hundred percent sure you’re going to read the next book. It makes it impossible to pass any sort of judgement on the story because you’ve only read half of it! That to me is a sales tactic and a bad one, I will not be purchasing the second book because of this fact.
Please, please, please will authors learn to write a series with each book being a self-contained story? As it gives a real bad name to series authors when a large story is simply split into parts with no beginning, middle and end to the individual parts!
June 8, 2023
Yesss
*Spoilers*
I love this book because I can honestly understand where everyone is coming from in this book. As an older sibling I understand what Augustus mind state was when he went looking for Toby. I also understand what Toby mind state was when she withheld the fact she knew exactly who Augustus was. I think that Mimi Harper created characters that not only can you relate to but a situation that is not only tragically romance but real. I think one of my favorite things about this book is that the two main characters did not just see each other and know that the were in love, but that attraction was and still is the main focus.
*Spoilers*
I love this book because I can honestly understand where everyone is coming from in this book. As an older sibling I understand what Augustus mind state was when he went looking for Toby. I also understand what Toby mind state was when she withheld the fact she knew exactly who Augustus was. I think that Mimi Harper created characters that not only can you relate to but a situation that is not only tragically romance but real. I think one of my favorite things about this book is that the two main characters did not just see each other and know that the were in love, but that attraction was and still is the main focus.
June 20, 2014
I'm intrigued that's for sure!!
I really want to know what happened next .. Why she was hiding the truth .. Why Jackie died that night?!
But the thing I'm not so sure about is if I like Toby!!
I mean I love Augustus!! You can understand his pain and guilt ..
But Toby ... I got nothing from her ..
I don't sympathize with her .. I don't like her ..
We'll see if that changes in the next book ... Or not!
I really want to know what happened next .. Why she was hiding the truth .. Why Jackie died that night?!
But the thing I'm not so sure about is if I like Toby!!
I mean I love Augustus!! You can understand his pain and guilt ..
But Toby ... I got nothing from her ..
I don't sympathize with her .. I don't like her ..
We'll see if that changes in the next book ... Or not!
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June 2, 2014
July 3, 2014
Will be getting the rest of the series because wow cliff hanger!
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