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WARM CHARMING AND FLAT-OUT FUNNY... "A heartwarming and funny story about friendship, romance, and the heart-wrenching reality of breakups-while busting out some spot-on dating advice along the way."- Liz Tuccillo, Bestselling Co-Author of He's Just Not That Into You and Executive Story Editor of HBO's Emmy Award-Winning Series Sex and the City A broken leg requires an orthopedist. A broken car requires a mechanic. And a broken heart requires a specialist too. The Breakup Doctor is now in. Call Brook Ogden a matchmaker-in-reverse. Let others bring people together; Brook, licensed mental health counselor, picks up the pieces after things come apart. When her own therapy practice collapses, she maintains perfect control: landing on her feet with a weekly advice-to-the-lovelorn column and a successful consulting service as the Breakup Doctor: on call to help you shape up after you breakup. But when her own relationship suddenly crumbles, Brook finds herself engaging in almost every bad-breakup behavior she preaches against. And worse, she starts a rebound relationship with the most inappropriate of men: a dangerously sexy bartender with anger-management issues-who also happens to be a former patient. As her increasingly out-of-control behavior lands her at rock-bottom, Brook realizes you can't always handle a messy breakup neatly-and that sometimes you can't pull yourself together until you let yourself fall apart. Praise for THE BREAKUP DOCTOR: "Warm, charming, and flat-out funny-a delightful debut " - Sarah Bird, Bestselling Author of The Boyfriend School and The Gap Year "A pleasure from beginning to end. The Breakup Doctor is as wise as it is funny." - Sherry Thomas, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Luckiest Lady in London and My Beautiful Enemy "If I didn't know better I'd say Brook was based on me; her story certainly parallels my life. Hitting rock bottom is the best thing that can happen to anyone (in hindsight) and laughter is the best medicine. The Br