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Negotiation of Wounds delves into divorce from a new perspective: that of the lawyers, As Preston and Timothy go at it before their respective clients ever make it into court, the shady dealings of the two lawyers slowly come to light.
A gripping look into the sometimes vileness of divorce, the book still allows the reader to feel a sense of hopefulness for its characters as they embroil themselves in battle.
A Negotiation of Wounds is the second book that I have read by Michael Stephenson and was just as impressed with this one as the last.
This book rotates around a couple that is undergoing a divorce, They are a power couple that lives in Hollywood, so their impeding divorce is the talk of all the tabloids in town.
It all starts with the wife, Amanda, walking in on her husband, Reed, in bed with another woman, She then decides that she wants a divorce, After being rejected by the family lawyer, because they are representing her soon to be exhusband, she has to find another lawyer.
Amanda happens to hire the nemeses of that law firm, Preston Michael Windsor,
Preston has a reputation around town for a couple of reasons, not all for his legal ability, Due to a few of his extracurricular activities, he has landed himself in therapy, Now, these therapy sessions seem to be very informational and do add to the story line, On the other hand, the actual descriptions of his extra activities really do not add to the story, they are more of a distraction.
I question whether these escapades are even needed in the story line,
The law firm that is representing Reed, the soon to be exhusband, has had a few crushing blows in regards to this case.
The first lawyer that was assigned the case was hit by a car and is now in a coma, So the case had to be handed to another family lawyer, Timothy, but he has been out of the major league cases for about a decade, due to a mental breakdown caused by another divorce case.
As the story progresses, Timothy begins to get his “swagger”

back, but in doing this he alienates his family,
Both sides of the case are trying to undercut the other, A lot of this is done by spreading half truths or flat out lies, of which both Amanda and Reed are hesitant to want to do.
Before Timothy began to get his fighting attitude back, he was even hesitant to go as far as his boss and managing partner wanted.
The longer the pretrial last the more hurtful the “stunts” and lies get,
I would give this book aout ofrating, A little lower than I rated Michael Stephensons other book, This is mainly because of the, in my opinion, unneeded story line of Prestons extracurricular activities, Also, I think that is book needed to be broken down into more chapters, There is a lot that happens in each chapter that could possibly be split into smaller chapters, Otherwise I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to reading more novels from Michael in the future! Sounds like this might become a series.

Love and Happiness once dwelled together in homes throughout this world, But now, it seems as if more homes have come to marry the thoughts of Love and Divorce, In A Negotiation Of Wounds, the battle between the two paradigms finds its way into the public eye,
When Amanda Matthews finds her film producer husband Reed Matthews having an affair, she moves swiftly to file for divorce, But when she and her husband attain the services of two cutthroat lawyers in the city of LA, they find themselves pushed farther into a world of deception than they dared go.
Now they must wade through the dangerous and often hostile land of divorce, without losing themselves in the process,
A sexy, visceral, fastpaced ride, A Negotiation of Wounds takes you on a journey through fame, pain, rejection, eroticism, selfdiscovery and love as one couple seeks to severe the ties that bind.
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I read the description before agreeing to read the book, "Love and Happiness once dwelled together in homes throughout this world.
But now, it seems as if more homes have come to marry the thoughts of Love and Divorce, In A Negotiation Of Wounds, the battle between the two paradigms finds its way into the public eye,
When Amanda Matthews finds her film producer husband Reed Matthews having an affair, she moves swiftly to file for divorce, But when she and her husband attain the services of two cutthroat lawyers in the city of LA, they find themselves pushed farther into a world of deception than they dared go.
Now they must wade through the dangerous and often hostile land of divorce, without losing themselves in the process,
A sexy, visceral, fastpaced ride, A Negotiation of Wounds takes you on a journey through fame, pain, rejection, eroticism, selfdiscovery and love as one couple seeks to severe the ties that bind.
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It sounded like interesting reading, the subject matter highly relevant to me, and probably many others who have been through divorce.
The premise behind the story was good, I did want to see what happened between the celebrity couple during their divorce, find out if they could save their marriage and how it affected their children.
I felt like I was duped a little bit, though, whether by misunderstanding or not, The word eroticism, which I may have even overlooked when reading the description one little word in the description doesn't cover it.
I was highly uncomfortable reading, and after the first few scenes of Preston and Janet I tried to skip over the remaining scenes between them.
Their relationship made me uncomfortable, didn't add or take away anything from the story for me, and the BDSM was not appealing to me.
The idea that a man would injure a woman, leave lacerations, bruises, and possible broken bones, who knows what other kinds of injuries to a woman and then wait for her to heal up between rounds of torturous sex isn't something I find pleasurable.
Add that to the fact that it was stated Janet saved herself from an abusive marriage only to become involved with Preston and allowed him to injure her in the places of all her old injuries there was no way I could fathom it.




The book seemed to be centered around Preston more than the family going through the divorce, or PRESTON MICHAEL WINDSOR, as he emphatically required all should address him, every time someone addressed him in the book.
Not Preston, not Mr. Windsor Preston Michael Windsor. I see other reviewers have found him almost charming, or amusing, I didn't like his character, He slept with just about every female character in the book, Slapped with sexual harassment suit by a judge, sent to therapy, then judge sleeps with him and the therapist wants him too Literally, every woman pants and drools after him, and if he chooses they sleep with him.
He even sleeps with ayear old grandmother who wants him to marry her grand daughter ewww and his office staff who aren't bothered by that at all.
He just didn't strike a good chord with me,
I was close to liking Timothy Daniels, and felt a bit sorry for him, but by the end of the book he changed and I felt the same way about him that his family did.
I started to like Amanda because she realized what was happening to her family and let Reed have time with the children, eventually called off the lawyers, and wanted to reconcile because she still loved her husband.
That, however, came to a crashing end with her final scene in Preston's office, Can you guess what happened there
The book did give a look into what can happen when high profile people team up with high power lawyers to do battle.
The couple gets in far over their head with lies and manipulations, each trying to be bigger and more devastating than the last, to eventually win the war.
The lengths the lawyers went to win was disturbing, That aspect of the book was interesting,



Over all, it just wasn't for me, Others may find it more enjoyable,
I was given a copy of this book for free in exchange for an honest review, Michael Stephenson has been writing for over a decade, A lover of horror, his fiction stretches over a plethora of genres including: romance, erotica, thrillers, action/adventure, horror, urban, legal, and political.
Sticking mainly to fiction, he does enjoy reading a great amount of non fiction as well, An avid lover of films, he also is a screenwriter, He believes that a good story engulfs the reader or viewer in the world of the characters, A well told story can be powerful in effecting a persons mood or life, For this reason, he seeks to tell a myriad of captivating stories about the things that interest him, Michael Stephenson has been writing for over a decade, A lover of horror, his fiction stretches over a plethora of genres including: romance, erotica, thrillers, action/adventure, horror, urban, legal, and political.
Sticking mainly to fiction, he does enjoy reading a great amount of non fiction as well, An avid lover of films, he also is a screenwriter, He believes that a good story engulfs the reader or viewer in the world of the characters, A well told story can be powerful in effecting a person's mood or life, For this reason, he seeks to tell a myriad of captivating stories about the things that interest him, sitelink.