Breaking The Rules

Isabelle LaFayette counts herself a failure at most things. Her most recent attempt to end her own life did not succeed, and she carries it with her, along with a long list of other regrets. She is trying to forgive herself for harsh, selfish choices she made.

Then she meets Jack Riley. Around him she feels more alive and more worthy than she has before, and for a while that feeling holds.

The old sense of worthlessness returns, though. Isabelle pushes away Jack, the one man who truly cares about her, and the damage of that choice adds to what she already has to face.

The book deals directly with suicide and its aftermath, so it is a heavy read. Isabelle has to find the strength to look at her past honestly and face her demons. The question the story turns on is whether she can gather the broken pieces of her life into something new.