Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Beneath the glittering skyline of Chicago, Marcus Thorne and Lauren Sinclair risk losing the very thing they want most: love.Marcus Thorne has spent his life mastering control.Successful, disciplined, and respected, he has built a world where strength means self-reliance, vulnerability is dangerous, and emotions are best managed from a distance. Few people know that beneath his composed exterior is a man still carrying the wounds of a childhood shaped by fear, silence, and conditional love.Lauren Sinclair knows something about survival, too.A devoted mother, accomplished professional, and steadfast friend, Lauren has always been the person others depend on. She has spent years pouring herself into the people she loves, believing that resilience means enduring disappointment, carrying burdens alone, and giving until there is nothing left of herself to keep.When an unexpected connection grows into a love that neither of them anticipated, Marcus and Lauren discover that chemistry is easy. Intimacy is not.As old wounds surface and carefully constructed defenses begin to crack, they find themselves trapped in a painful cycle of longing, fear, retreat, and heartbreak. Loving one another becomes less about finding the right person and more about becoming the people capable of sustaining the kind of love they both desire.Surrounded by family, lifelong friendships, therapy, loss, laughter, and the difficult work of healing, Marcus and Lauren must confront the emotional blueprints that shaped them long before they met.Because sometimes the greatest obstacle to love is not betrayal, distance, or circumstance.Sometimes it is the quiet voice that whispers you are safer alone.Shattered Pieces: Glass House Heart is an emotionally immersive contemporary romance about unhealed trauma, second chances, self-discovery, and the courage to choose vulnerability over self-protection. It is a story for readers who believe that true love does not rescue us from ourselves... but inspires us to do the work necessary to finally come home to who we were always meant to be.
