BREAKING FREE by Eve Gowdey

A novel of gifted girl and a resolute man meeting out of loneliness and mistrust. They meet because he was called in to remodel her home. She bought her house out of a decision to be independent of men. Neither of them realize how powerfully they are attractive to each other because they have been so damaged by their very separate and different but abusive pasts. The resist falling in love but they fit together like pieces of an intricate puzzle even though they have such opposite temperaments. The hero is a is an building innovator, brilliant but not well educated. The young woman is well educated and is a successful artist. They cannot imagine a successful alliance between them. But they work together perfectly. Gradually in their work together they begin to gain confidence in each other thus in themselves. He is bold and decisive and she is essentially timid. Both need to overcome destructive family violence and in his case the trauma of fighting though all the five great battles of the second World War defeating the Nazis. The young woman has escaped from a horrifying sadistic psychologist. She doesn’t know what to do but the hero does. He is instrumental in hanging her damning pictures of the wicked psychologist in the atrium of one of his new buildings. Her pictures show the whole world to see the criminal behavior of the psychologist. The psychologist. holds a gun to his head and shoots himself. At first the young woman is overwhelmed with guilt but the hero convinces her that she did not kill the revolting psychologist. Seeing his horrible actions within the eyes of other people caused him to commit suicide. The hero and the young girl realize that they were meant for each other. Their union causes them to to lay aside the hurts of their totally destructive pasts because they have deep confidence in each other and consequently in themselves to go forward to a glorious future together.