Breathing Room
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

She's Dr. Isabel Favor, America's Diva of Self Help.
He's Ren Gage, Hollywood's Favorite bad guy

Sometimes you just know that God has a sense of humor.

She's lost her money to an unscrupulous accountant, her fiance to a frumpy older woman, and her reputation to headlines denouncing her as a fraud. Lately it seems Dr. Isabel, America's favorite self-help guru, can fix everyone's life but her own. Even the shelter of a simple stone farmhouse nestled in an olive grove can't provide Isabel with the refuge she needs---not when the townspeople are scheming to drive her away, her plan to restore her good name has come up empty...and a movie star villain with a face to die for refuses to leave her in peace!

Viciously handsome and sublimely talented, Lorenzo Gage makes his living killing people...on the silver screen, that is. Vacationing, he hates the feeling that everything he's neglected in life is catching up with him. Then he spots Isabel sipping a glass of wine in a sidewalk cafe. A good guy wouldn't think of seducing such a tidy-looking woman...but Ren Gage never saw the fun in playing the hero.

Sometimes all it takes is a special place...a special love...a little breathing room...for life to deliver all its glorious promise..

Originally published June 2002 in hardcover by William Morrow and reissued May 2003 in mass market paperback by Avon.

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First Star I See Tonight
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Heroes Are My Weakness

The Great Escape
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Hot Shot

Call Me Irresistible
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Nobody's Baby but Mine
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Lady Be Good
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What I Did for Love

Heaven, Texas
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Dream A Little Dream
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips' Bio

Susan Elizabeth Phillips is an internationally published author whose work has been translated into more than 30 languages and appears on bestseller lists all over the world. She is a four-time Rita Award winner, recipient of the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award, and was inducted into Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. Susan, the queen of sports romance, believes that life is better with happily ever afters. Susan's newest Chicago Stars novel, SIMPLY THE BEST, is now available in hardcover and is coming in trade paperback February 25, 2025. Visit Susan on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok or on her website.