Warm Hands

Warm Hands by Margaret Johnson-Hodge. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780312972936.

Mya is feeling free and content after months of heartbreaking sadness in the aftermath of breaking up with her commitment-phobic boyfriend, Vincent. Shes taken up running, looks good, and has no intention of starting another relationship. Then she meets Jeff. Handsome, decent, and kind, hes a keeper-the kind of man shes always wanted...the man she is about the marry. Until she stuns herself and everyone else by betraying Jeff...with Vincent. Hurt and angry, Jeff walks out of her life, leaving Mya alone to confront her deepest self and her destructive behavior. In doing so, she takes a brave look at her own life and the family patterns she learned to follow. Through a haze of pain, despair and desperation, Mya awakens to lifes truest lessons: self-love is the most important love of all, and only by loving yourself can others truly love you...