title: Broken
author: Bernhardt, J.S.
description: Scott Henson has it all: an undeniably handsome face, great body, high intelligence, and a successful career. He would be the first to confirm those statements. Scott surrounds himself with only the prettiest women and most expensive material possessions. He always judges a book by its cover. Because of his judgmental points of view and extremely high standards, many regard him as an asshole. That is of no consequence to him. Other people’s opinions matter very little anyway. Scott is who he is without apology. Valentina Luciano is a young established painter and photographer with very eclectic tastes. She is a caring, quiet and unconventionally attractive free spirit who tries to find beauty in everything around her. Over the last three years, her life has become tragically complicated. Every day she is struggling to find the happiness she once knew before her life began to fall apart. Val is the type of person who never lets her pain show. When Val’s world crashes into Scott’s they find themselves drawn to each other in ways they never experienced with any other person. Their clashing points of view and opinions trigger heated discussions and intellectual debates that inexplicably pull them even closer to one another. Val is certain there is more to Scott than his surface vanity and slanted points of view. Scott is confused about his attraction to Valentina because she is the opposite of everything he’s ever considered his ideal image of beauty. When Scott realizes he wants more than friendship with her, they come to a crossroads. Val has to choose between friendship and the happiness she has found with Scott or the dark future her secrets and past will cause them both. “We come from two different worlds. His is beauty and perfection. Mine is chaotic and broken.”