Warm Hands; A Novel

by Margaret Johnson-Hodge

• ISBN13: 9780312972936
• ISBN10: 0312972938
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-15
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Summary

Mya is feeling free and content after months of heartbreaking sadness in the aftermath of breaking up with her commitment-phobic boyfriend, Vincent. She's taken up running, looks good, and has no intention of starting another relationship. Then she meets Jeff. Handsome, decent, and kind, he's a keeper-the kind of man she's 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 life's truest lessons: self-love is the most important love of all, and only by loving yourself can others truly love you....

Author Biography

Margaret Johnson-Hodge has been published in Long Journey Home, a poetry anthology, and is the author of The Real Deal and A New Day. She lives in the southeaster United States.

Table of Contents

"Fresh writing and an honest recognizable heroine." --Publishers Weekly on The Real Deal

"The wonderful Ms. Johnson-Hodge has give us a tale that is both moving and insightful." --Romantic Times on A New Day

"This hip, Terry McMillan-esque book will have you reexamine your thoughts about love and romance." --Quarterly Black Review on The Real Deal

"Margaret Johnson-Hodge has done it again." --Carmen Green, author of Commitments, on A New Day

"A New Day is an excellent story of love, pride, parenting and second chances. I recommend it!" --The Romance Reader on A New Day

Excerpts

Excerpt

Touch.

It was essential. From the moment you are born you were touched. Two hands cradling you, bringing you into the world, making the passage easy, the journey benign. Touch became a comfort, a necessity and a joy, and no man had touched Mya like Vincent had.

Like a magnet Mya had been drawn to him. For two years through thick and think she had stayed by his side; supporting him when he couldn't keep a job, loving him when he suffered bouts of uselessness and depression; believing she could help him, fix him. Save him.

But Vincent didn't want to be saved, didn't want to be helped and certainly not fixed. In the end he left her when he had had his fill of her attempts. Simply told her "It's over" without reason or explanation, walking out of her life refusing to explain a thing.

She was smart enough to know that a man did not define her, yet her heart still searched for a reconnection, a yin to her yang. Mya didn't feel desolate about the situation and desperation had yet to claim her. Still there were moments when she longed for the feel of him, for the warmth of his hands upon her. Moments coming when she dreamed of the next man who would enter her world and reawaken her with a touch.

Copyright © 2000 Margaret Johnson-Hodge. All rights reserved.