Each day I prayed for my husband to love me again.After fifteen years together, he walked away from me, and into the arms of another.I didn’t know how to cope. I didn’t know my worth. I didn’t know how to exist without him by my side.All I wanted was for him to come back to me.Then, Jackson Emery appeared.He was supposed to be a distraction for my mind. A summer fling. A confidence boost to my … A summer fling. A confidence boost to my bruised heart.
We were perfect for one another, because we both knew we wouldn’t last. Jackson didn’t believe in commitment, and I no longer believed in love. He was too closed-off for me, and I was too damaged for him.
Everything was fine, until one night my heart skipped a beat.
I didn’t expect him to make me laugh. To make me think. To make my sadness somewhat disappear.
When our time was up, my heart didn’t know how to walk away.
Each day I prayed for my husband to love me again, yet slowly my prayers began to shift toward the man who wasn’t right for me.
I prayed for one more smile, one more kiss, one more laugh, one more touch…
I prayed for him to be mine.
Even though I knew his heart wasn’t destined to love.
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Wow!!!!
Disgrace stole my heart. I loved this book. It gave me so many good feels while it made me want to punch anyone who hurt the heroine. Brittainy Cherry continues to blow my mind with her amazing writing and heartfelt stories. Jackson and Grace were such beautifully broken characters who healed one another. I loved the way they fought for the each other. Just know this book is amazing and I floating on cloud nine after reading this book.
Brittainy C Cherry is one of my favorite authors, someone I would one-click immediately no matter what the book is. But each time I start her newest book I’m a little nervous, I try to lower my standards a bit because there is no way she can continue writing such incredible books. Each time she proves me wrong, and Disgrace is no exception.
Every word written by this author pulls you in and doesn’t let go. She has as a way of writing that not brings each character and emotion to life, but makes you feel each and every one. Jackson & Gracelyn are lost, trying to own the identities they’ve been branded with, while also trying to discover who they actually are. They are both flawed and broken, and somehow these two complete opposites might just be what the other needs to heal.
This book gets under your skin, forcing you to not just read, but actually experience the story. I wanted to scream one minute, was laughing the next, and then all of a sudden couldn’t control the tears. Disgrace is a heartbreakingly beautiful story and, in my opinion, is completely perfect.
Powerful Emotions
This book packs a punch, will knock you down, make you walk through a gamut, you’ll look at the walls adorned with beautiful artwork of human relationships. A girl is on a brink of a major upheaval in life, which throws everything she’s ever believed in up in disarray.
Our lives had been so tangled together that I was almost certain he took parts of me when he untied our love.
Who was I supposed to be now?
Was I even still a person of my own accord?
Without Finley, did I even exist?
To find a way out of this fog of deceptions and betrayals, she finds a beacon of hope in the town’s monster. Together they support each other and try and fix their broken lives. The strongest underlying message is empowerment of women. Not lay down and be treated as a doormat, but find a voice and follow it, shed the shackles of their subjugation. Believing in themselves rather than feeling lost without men.creating their own identity and not losing their sparkle in shadows of their men
Love was a messy emotion that didn’t walk a straight line. It worked in waves and loops of ups and downs. It was a screwy emotion that could somehow still exist amidst the ultimate heartbreak and betrayal. .
The most amazing thing about picking up a Brittainy Cherry book is that you’re guaranteed to have an emotional storm in your heart. Sympathies swirl and twist , uplift and drown, ebb and flow , sweeping you in a river swollen with moods , tempers and sentiments. The story pierced straight in my heart with its honesty and passion. My eyes were overflowing and my insides were twisting. I rooted for Grace & Jackson, cried for them, was ready to fight their families the town, the entire world for them.
I wished there was a way to stop it— to shut off the love faucet, to make my heart stop feeling.
But still, it felt.
Still, it burned.
They go through so much torment, such anguish, such conflict, I was done. I was ready to take a hammer and beat up a car or something, trash a shop, break some bottles, anything to vent my anger. Every couple Brittainy creates, they’re beautiful but broken souls, victims of life and its circumstances.
In a small town in Georgia, A damsel meets a monster and she zooms in close enough to see deep into his beautiful soul hidden behind the perceived ugliness. It takes a lot of courage, a lot of patience and a lot of generosity of spirit, all of which Grace Harris has in abundance.
You just needed faith the size of mustard seed that no matter what, things would work out.
Schooled to be a perfect lady, Programmed to behave like a Stepford wife, as she and her sister Judy have to hide their ambitions, thoughts, emotions and opinions to themselves and trim their personalities to fit into the “Pastor’s Family” expected framework.
Jackson and his dad are town monsters. Beasts to be feared and avoided at all costs and ridiculed whenever. They’re ostracized by day but solicited at night by horny women looking to be fixed
The women of that town had no problem hating me when the sun shone while moaning my name when the shadows of the night fell. I was the secret escape from their fake realities. Some kind of challenge for their well-behaved Southern souls.
I cant, won’t give the story away, but I’ll say this.It just surprises you at every turn every chapter the story develops and reveals truths. Ugly truths about small townspeople mentalities and it’s prejudices
On the other hand there’s beautiful truths about kindred spirits finding solace together, healing their wounded hearts together
“when you zoom in, when you truly look at the person beside you, you’ll see many of the same things. Hope. Love. Fear. Anger. Once you zoom in, you realize we are all similar in so many ways. We all bleed red, and even monster’s hearts can break. Just gotta remember to always zoom in.”
To always zoom in…
This book is not JUST a story, its a pious sermon, reminding us to open our hearts always. Let the fresh air of acceptance and love come in, swirl around, drive away demons of prejudices, stink of bias and mould of judgements out of our hearts.
“If you turn your back on one, then you turn back on all and THAT is the ultimate sin- to disgrace God’s people.
It’s poetry in motion, changing mood from poignant to angry to lusty to passionate to angsty to frustration and eventually acceptance. The story flowed so smoothly and flawlessly I didn’t even find time to put it down. Engrossing completely, I was totally submerged. Pick up this book when it releases and just enjoy the beautiful journey !
5 “Always and Always” stars
Wow, this was such an emotional read. I was crying by the end of the book. The hero – holy cow. He was such an asshole at the beginning, but oh, my. I can easily say that he is one of the best heros I`ve ever read about. And the heroine. She was so strong. I loved her from page 1. Their chemistry was over the top, their touches, glances, words. Everything was so intense.
Beautiful, captivating read <3
Powerful Moments.
This book brings you oodles of those and then some. This is my very first read by Brittainy C. Cherry and I can say after finishing I am scouring her backlist. The emotions this story evokes are great and multifarious. I loved Jackson and Grace, and I loved that they built each other up while on their road of self discovery. Disgrace has such a positive and uplifting quality within it leaving the reader with a sense of gratification and contentment.
I paired this book with the audible, and I first I was not sure if the diction of the voices matched the characters being portrayed in words, but the more I listened the more I concluded that no other voice narration would have been suitable for these arduous characters. I can still hear the narrators in my head, and I miss the comfort of not only the words but the voices. I think I will be listening to this audible again in the very near future.
Imagine a small town. Where they all know each other and call themselves exemplary Christians. Where false smiles and treacherous hugs conceal all the rot and cruelty that a human being can possess. Welcome to Chester, Georgia.
Gracelyn or Grace is one of the daughters of the town´s reverend. And as such, she was raised to have the perfect behavior, the perfect friends, the perfect husband. Until she sees her dreams become a nightmare.
Jackson is the bad boy in town. Mechanic, ex-addict and son of the drunk of the town. This for the ones who only look at the façade, for this sullen boy possesses many qualities and a dark past that has marked him forever.
The interaction between Grace and Jackson is far from love at first sight. The way they meet is at least unusual, and almost a poetic license. Initially the prejudice of both seems not to be possible. But it happens one day at a time and in a very believable way.
And after being broken in every possible way, on the journey of her self-discovery, Grace can find what she is not looking for: love. But can a love like this, pure but scandalous, survive the ignorance of an entire city? including part of her family?
While in some scenes you want to strangle a character in the city, or the whole city, in others your heart warms with such tenderness, as the scene of the eggs in Jackson’s house, the phone in the supermarket, the books in the bookstore, the bouquets in the Mother´s Day … the book has several cute scenes .
But Grace and Jackson’s journey will not be easy. Especially near the end. Secrets of the past can rock not just the two families, but the whole city. A lot of drama and tears on the way for the readers.
A moving story about love, forgiveness, self-knowledge and fresh starts. Where one discovers that it is never too late to welcome yourself, to forgive yourself and to know yourself, so that you can offer the best of yourself to those around you.
I’m a very shallow reader, folks. I’m not usually looking for deep, emotional reads that make me think too hard or cry. I love short, easy reads that are heavy on the laughs and snark, light on deep thinking. Disgrace is the opposite of what I normally look for in a romance, and HOLY HELL DID I LOVE THIS BOOK. I think that means the author is wielding some kind of magic, yes?
First and foremost, Disgrace is the story of a woman who has suffered horribly in her marriage going home to find herself (which sounds awful, but trust me, it’s not). After multiple miscarriages, gut-wrenching betrayal, and an impending divorce, the heroine, Grace, doesn’t really know who she is anymore. She’s lived her life as the perfect daughter, the perfect community member, the perfect wife, and where has it gotten her? Going through a divorce at 30 with nothing to show for her marriage but damaged self-esteem and a douchebag ex.
What I loved most about Grace was that even though she was struggling to find herself and still kind of wanted to be the people-pleaser she’d been raised to be, she wasn’t ever weak. Confused, sure. But weak? Never. She never turned her back on Jackson, the hero, or his family, even though doing so would’ve made her life considerably easier. She was broken, but not beaten, and when push came to shove, she was a good person and a solid friend to Jackson. Her strength of character was nothing short of inspirational.
And Jackson…oh, honey. My heart just broke for him. He’d lost his mother, his dad was the town drunk, everyone called him a monster, and he was stuck in a town where charity and kindness seemed available to everyone but him. And worst of all, he couldn’t leave because he’d promised his mom (on her deathbed, no less), that he’d take care of his father.
So, here’s this (inwardly) sweet, gentle man stuck living a miserable lonely life in an awful town and pretending to be a complete asshole so that no one would ever know just how much their cruel nicknames and petty gossip really hurt him. He’s exactly what Grace says he is: a gentle monster. I loved every single word written from this gentle monster’s point of view. He was FLAWLESS.
Did he treat Grace badly in the beginning? Yes, he said some awful things to her. But his actions contradict his words, and it didn’t take long for Grace (and me as a reader) to see what a good man Jackson really is. Jackson is officially on my list of all-time favorite book boyfriends. (His former manwhore ways are completely forgiven)
I will say that the people in Grace and Jackson’s hometown, her parents included, are often just awful. You’ll want them dead at several points throughout the story. But the majority of them either come around and start acting like they aren’t complete douchebags by the end of the story, or they weren’t that important to begin with, so I didn’t deduct any points from my review because of it. I’m cutting the author some slack because I adored Grace and Jackson so much.
Small spoiler alert: the dog dies. This is normally a deal breaker for me as a reader, but in this case, I kept reading because a) the death was off the page, so I wasn’t forced to read about it in excruciating detail, and b) the dog was a happy, 15-year-old boy who’d lead a great life and he wasn’t murdered, or anything. It was just his time to go. (And even though the scene was handled beautifully, I still bawled like a baby. The little eulogy Jackson gives the dog is powerful and heartbreaking and beautiful all at the same time.)
And one other thing that is so shallow it’s hardly worth mentioning (but, hey, shallow is kind of my thing, so…yeah), but I also loved it that Grace was older than Jackson. He’s 24 and she’s 30, so it’s not a huge age difference, but it’s so much better than the typical 40-year-old man falls for beautiful 18-year-old crap that you end up seeing so many times in romance novels. I LOVE the younger man/older woman trope.
So, long-story-short, if you love an emotional, deeply touching romance that’ll make you cry a little because it’s all so beautiful and so REAL, give this one a go. You won’t be disappointed.
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4,5 “always and always” stars
I’m not the type of reader who highlight books phrases whenever I read. But with Brittainy books you can’t not do it! There is so beautiful lines that makes you think, to hold it for life. The author’s writing has made a huge book seems small from the way that the story has flowed. You won’t even notice the time passing, the day turning night, because of how immersed that you will be while reading.
DISGRACE is told in a slow pace and everything happens in its own time. Jackson and Grace do not fall in love right away, but in the course of their story they get to know each other and slowly they don’t even realize they’re getting close. We fall in love with the couple just the same. With each chapter the heart beats stronger and we want and cheer for everything to work out.
Both have wounds of the past that affect their present. Jackson suffered bullying his entire life, making him a recluse. Grace has donated her life to a marriage that is suddenly over and now she has to learn who she really is. What I liked the most about the book was seeing people who felt they needed to wear masks to become someone, becoming strong and thinking of themselves first, loving themselves first and then opening up to love others.
Usually in a book by Brittainy we love both main and secondary characters. In DISGRACE you can count on just one hand how many people you can save there. Really! The love for the protagonists is real. But the hatred for the people of that city is real as well.
The doses of crying, laughter and drama are perfectly balanced turning DISGRACE into yet another marvellous book by this author. I’m super fan of her and always expect amazing stories. And that’s exactly what she delivered: a wonderful story that stays with us even after the last page ends. I highly recommend it.
Disgrace
This book was five stars plus. A story of family, of loss, of infidelity, and of finding oneself. It’s a story that hooks you on page one and never lets you go. You are on an emotional roller coaster when you meet Finn and Grace. Finn leaves her a broken women after seven miscarriages and she has to go back to her small town a broken women, While Finn comes to town for a position at the hospital. Grace is devastated and she meets Jackson the towns bad boy, the towns devil. Grace’s family is the epitome of town society, her father is the preacher at the towns church. Grace finds a friend in Jackson that develops into more. Jackson Is broken and feels he is not worthy of love or friendship and has his own demons. Jackson and Grace become an unlikely couple and they find love. This book is for anyone who is ever loved and lost: this book is for anyone who has ever loved. It is the story of two souls Jackson Emery and Grace Hennessy. Two starcrossed lovers who have each suffered heartbreak and disappointment. The story is about loss it addresses miscarriage infidelity separation, divorce and a parent who expects perfection. Jackson and Grace each experience these feelings or situations and each handle them differently Grace with compassion and masks her hurt and Jackson who internalizes and beccomes a hardened bully a bad boy who acts out. This book is truly about family as the book progress Jackson and Grace are challenged to heal and they learn to love. Grab a box of tissues, a comfortable chair, a beverage and hold on to your heart as you read what I believe is one of the best books this year.
This book was all things to all readers: contemporary romance, sex on wheels, cheating husband, good girl-bad boy romance, Medea as Mommy, parents behaving badly, generational drama, small town gossip, and on and on. And on.
Books starts with the h as a spineless, colorless doormat’s inner groveling and whining for the husband that left her eight months before. She goes home with her tale between her legs to be confronted by her horrible mother who wants her to go back to the cheater. The mother is relentlessly horrible in telling her how to live her life. The townspeople are not so great either as they meddle and pry without any shame. It was OTT, but I found it very believable as, yes Margaret, there are mothers that MUHTHERs like her as well as little buttinsky hometowns.
I was contemplating a 1-2 star rant or a DNF when the h starts to change. She realizes that she is spineless, colorless doormat that inner grovels and whines too much. It helps when she meets the younger man, bad boy. They start a sex without strings non-romance that grows into something more.
Toxicity blooms with the mother, and the soon-to-be ex makes an appearance. I enjoyed the story, all the stories, but in terms of writing it was kind of all over the place.
There is a dark backstory that was tad more believable than most, and it all ends with unicorns and roses. There is some character redemption that is a little unbelievable but a relief.
I could have really used an epilogue for reasons that will be obvious if you read it.
Trigger: miscarriages. The heroine had seven miscarriages which is touched on.
Why does this author keep breaking my heart?
WOW! Brittainy C. Cherry did it again. What a wonderful book! This author knows a direct way to my heart. Her words are so perfect. It’s like music to my soul.
This is a story to get lost in.
I cried. I laughed. I cursed. I prayed. My heart broke and ached at times but got put back together eventually, though the cracks will stay there as a reminder of this touching tale of two broken souls finding themselves and helping one another to heal.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a book where I got this raging mad on behalf of the characters as I did with this story. I was so mad that tears welled up in my eyes. Oh my, totally not the emotions I expected but I’m sure everyone who reads the book will understand exactly what I’m talking about.
But there was so much more than just anger because I felt all their pain, loss, helplessness but also their love and passion. The characters went through a very tough part of their lives where they felt lost and didn’t know how to be themselves and I was captured by the intensity of everything. There was so much prejudice, gossip, misjudging and hurting in this story but also a lot of positive energy and all those feelings were felt very strongly.
I wouldn’t compare this book to the author’s other ones because it’s mostly not as overwhelming and the blurb isn’t something that I haven’t read before but in no way does this mean that the story wasn’t unique because it still felt like an emotional rollercoaster. And what made this book so special is the way it’s written. It’s a very beautiful and touching story about two broken and lost souls helping each other to find themselves. Absolutely amazing and a definite must read, but so are all of her books.
Be warned. The hero is broken and a massive jerk for quite a while but you will love him even more when you get to know him! Let your heart be broken and be moved by the characters on their journey.
I enjoy Ms. Cherry’s books. She is a wonderful writer. I wish this book had an epilogue. There were too many things that were left unanswered—it just seemed that the book was unfinished.
The Princess and the Monster completely stole my heart! Two broken souls who came into each other’s lives when they needed someone the most, and they brought each other out of the darkness they were living in. It was such an intense and beautiful story that I couldn’t put down. I absolutely loved it and can’t wait to read more from this author!
This is one of Brittany’s best by far. I absolutely am in love with this book!!
Oh my… what a beautiful love story this one is!
I almost have no words to describe it, but the way two broken people heal each other and outrun some major problems to be together is just beautiful!
Grace has been deceived by her husband in a way no one deserves to be. When she meets Jackson, she’s a mess of tears, low self esteem, hurt and weak. Jackson is someone she wouldn’t get involved with because of his “bad fame” in that town, a monster as they all say. He’s indeed rude, but only because the town people made him that way, its a self defense mechanism.
They hate each other in the beginning, but as the good souls they are, they cant stop caring for each other as individuals.
What starts as enemies, becomes a beautiful friendship, not welcomed by both their families.
Thankfully, they both start finding themselves until there’s no other option than to love each other. And the beauty of this story is the long and hurtful journey it takes to bring them there.
I absolutely recommend this book to all romance lovers!
“Maybe sometimes hearts have to skip in order to keep beating”
Well, I’ll tell you what. My heart skipped the entire time I was reading Disgrace. This story is raw and inspirational. If there is one thing that Cherry does, it’s making you feel all the emotions. All of them. I was so proud of myself for not crying. Giving myself high fives and pats on the back for keeping my emotions together. Then Cherry does what she does best. In the last 10% of the story, she took all these small details and tied them together and broke me. Of course I was in public because I have to travel all the time for work. So now, I’m balling my eyes out in a restaurant that I frequent often and the waitress looks at me in shock. All I could do was point to my kindle, then raise my shaking fist and say “You did it to me again, Brittainy.”
My favorite part is the inspirational aspect of witnessing Grace discover who she is. First the first quarter of the book I was kind of annoyed at her only because I wanted her to see her worth. When she finally figured it out, it was pure gold.
Oh and I can’t forget about Jackson. The lovable jerk who seeps into your heart and soul without your permission. I love when the hero is all jerky at the start but then you see the real person behind that facade. Everything about him had me begging for more.
I truly can’t express to you just how much I loved Disgrace. It’s just one of those stories that gives you hope and honestly centers around a topic that many of ourselves or friends and families have or will go through. At the end of the day, I felt the love and I felt the empowerment. You wanna feel? Get this book now.
Oh man, I’m still swooning and daydreaming… Such a sweet and heart-wrenching love story.
I really feel honored to receive an ARC from the Ms. Brittainy Cherry. I’ve read all of her books, and THE AIR HE BREATHES was my favorite… but now, I think I might re-think that thought.
Everybody should read this! I’m not only saying it because I’m a fan, but it’s got a whole lotta’ moral lessons… This is hands-down, my most highlighted book as far as 2018 goes.
There are parts of each of the characters that I can relate to… well, except for the substance abuse part. Lol
Sometimes, appearances can be deceitful… It’s true that there is always more than meets the eye… and just because people say it is, doesn’t mean it really is. And if we constantly care what other people think, then our lives isn’t really ours…
I’m just bursting with energy and happiness and inspiration. This book came out at the right time—a time were the news and social media speak of hatred, of bigotry and intolerance… This love-story will teach you about compassion, empathy and acceptance apart from respect and basic human decency.
This isn’t your typical love-story, but I assure ya’ll it’ll definitely pull your heartstrings.
I feel like I’ll be giving away the whole gist of the story if I say more… so I’m going to end this before my mouth runs away with me…
This is such a beautiful read, I cant gush enough!
And p.s… how sexy is that cover?? (Sigh)
Every book of Brittainy’s I love more then the last one but I think she seriously knocked it out of the park with this one. She has delivered such a breathtakingly emotional read that will have you gripped from the very first word until the last.
She has brought us two characters that are broken, they are both dealing with so much pain and are constantly being hurt by the people around them that should love and protect them. They are the most unlikely pairing but together they seem to heal each other and teach each other to live for themselves.
Grace is the pastors daughter who married her childhood sweetheart, Finlay, and moved away with him when he became a doctor. They are moving apart after fifteen years of marriage and a few miscarriages and Grace found out Finlay had an affair. Grace returns home broken and lost but being in the small town with the gossips and her mother who is only worried about appearances instead of her daughters welfare, I’m not sure home is the best place for her to heal. Especially when the gossip is kicked up after her friendship starts to blossom with the towns black sheep Jackson Emery.
Jackson Emery is the son of the towns drunk. He has a huge chip on his shoulder after the way the town punishes him for his fathers sins. He is one broken man who has handled it badly with drugs in the past as he didn’t have the support system he should have had. With Grace in his life I really loved watching him heal and calm.
With the town making their judgements known on them and Finlay being a bell-end with his unjustified jealousy over Grace moving on I was cheering for them to have a happy ending.
“Finlay caged me. Jackson allowed me to fly”
POWERFUL MOMENTS
Be prepared for an emotional rollercoaster!!
We first meet Jackson when he is 10 years old. His mother is leaving his father and he is trying to figure out why. When his mother left, she asked him one thing “Take care of your father”. And that is what Jackson did. For years, he took care of this father, through the bad times and the worst times. Living in a small town, Jackson was seen as the “troubled” kid. The kid from the wrong side of the track. But no one got to see the real Jackson. That is until Grace shows back up in town.
“They called me Satan’s spawn and it had bothered me when I was younger, but the older I got, the more I liked the ring of it. People had harbored an unnecessary fear of my father and me for fifteen or so years. They called us monsters, and after some time, we took on the role.”
Grace is from the same town as Jackson but has been gone for years. Grace has been married to Finn for the last 15 years. She has been though a lot in those year, a lot more than most women could handle. But after 15 years of marriage, Finn has decided he wants someone else. (and who he choses will make you mad!)
“My husband wasn’t a cheater except when it came to her. Her. I hated her, even though I didn’t know who she was. I hated her in a way I hadn’t known I could hate a stranger.”
When Grace crashes back into town for the summer, Jackson is there to catch her, even if he doesn’t want to in the beginning. Jackson isn’t nice. He’s rude and mean to Grace. Why? Because of her last name. Because of who her parents are.
Your heart will break for Grace when you learn her story. Your heart will break for Jackson when you see what he has lived with for almost his entire life. Your heart will break for both of them when the town starts talking. You know small towns, everyone talks.
We were just two broken people, uninterested in being fixed.
Jackson and Grace are opposites but they work. They balance each other out. Grace brings Jackson peace and Jackson makes Grace find herself for the first time.
Towards the end of this books, connections will start being made. You will start to understand different things that happened during the book and why those things happened. But those connections will also test Jackson and Grace. It will make them rethink what they have together. Is it just a summer fling or is it something real? If it is real love, can it survive the test it is about to be given?
This book will make you cry, laugh, cry some more, and then it will make you think about your life and re-evaluate how you are living your life.
Brittainy C. Cherry wrote an amazing novel. This book will give you the feels. It will touch your core and it will make you a better person.
4.5 stars
Brittainy could write a grocery list and I, for sure, will love it. I’ll never get tired of saying that she has a way of words. She’s brilliant and all her stories touch a different part of yourself.
Disgrace is a story about self-discovery and how is never too late to start doing it. About how you, sometimes, have to defy everything and everyone, break the mold and go beyond any expectations.
Jackson and Grace’s story is full of emotion and heartbreak. They were lost and broken, so they decided to join their broken pieces to help each other, to heal each other, but most important to find themselves in an unexpected way.