“What a perfect angel you are, Cecily.” He said it so tenderly, his smile close-lipped but full of joy.

The air thickened around them and she could feel every thump of her heart. He looked at the playbook, then lowered it by his side and stared into her eyes. “Okay, that was just…” Sawyer moved in front of her. She did her best to not jerk back, though it was her first instinct. She said her line, trying to peer into his soul like she wanted to be with him, and then Leo kissed her. It was impossible to concentrate with Sawyer standing right there, so close she could hear every shift of his body and feel his gaze on her like a weight. “Take it again, from before the proposal.” Our modern audience.” Sawyer shook his head. “I’m not saying it’s got to be a kiss with tongue, I’m saying you’ve got to look at each other like you’re in love so the audience will want it to work out. The next instant Sawyer was charging up the steps to the stage.

“It can’t be too passionate or it would seem inappropriate for the time.” “This is supposed to be the eighteen hundreds,” Brynn said. “Was that supposed to be more passionate? Because it sucked.” But what if Sawyer is already falling for the fake Brynn, not the Brynn she truly is? Like home.Īs Brynn’s lies start to snowball, she struggles to stop acting and come clean. There’s just something about the woman that feels…familiar. But the glamorous and beautiful Brynn draws him in, even though as her director, he knows she’s off-limits. Good thing she’s an excellent actress.Īfter his bad breakup in NYC, the last thing Sawyer wants is to get involved with another actress. But when her old crush, the impossibly handsome and impossibly unattainable Sawyer Raines, comes back to town to direct her community play, Brynn finds herself determined to be someone other than the girl he doesn’t even recognize. Brynn McAdams isn’t the awkward drama geek she was in high school-she’s grown up and confident, or at least she likes to think so.

All the Broken Pieces by Cindi Madsen