Broken Bodies Author:Sally Emerson Patrick Browning first sees Anne Fitzgerald in the British Museum, her head tilted, watching the beautiful frozen stone bodies of the Elgin Marbles. Both are young historians, and both have been drawn to research the same subject: Mary Nisbet, the notorious wife of Lord Elgin. Anne sees the present as thin and frightening, but finds the past com... more »pelling; Patrick’s lover claims he likes life at one remove, preferring the woman in a book to one in real life. But before long, their research spills over into an all–too–real rivalry, charged with tension and attraction—a rivalry that twists their own scarred love affairs to a breaking point. Sally Emerson is the critically acclaimed author of Heat, Fire Child, Separation, Second Sight, and Listeners.« less