Patricia Gordon

In the Shadow of Eleanora Delancey Patricia Gordon

Ordinary secretary Eleanora Delancey (a.k.a. Nora) experiences a not so ordinary, teensy, possible nervous breakdown three days before her twenty-second birthday. Did she at least have some privacy during this breakdown? No. Her coworkers and boss were witnesses. So what's a little, public breakdown, right? So what if she has a meaningless job? So what if she has tried unsuccessfully for most of her life to fit into the shoes of her somehow better looking, look-alike Broadway star mother Eleanora Delancey Sr.? And so what if she suddenly realizes that her life doesn't seem to have a purpose? Okay, maybe she has a few issues. Lucky for Nora there happens to be a therapy division on the ninth floor of her office building. To appease her employer and to make sure she's not fired for being a little emotionally unhinged just once in front of everybody, she agrees to have a session with a psychologist. She doesn't know what to expect when she first meets Dr. Dominick Mathers. What she never imagined is despite his curious, scraggly excuse for a mustache that he would otherwise be an attractive, young, green-eyed cutie pie who makes therapy on and off the couch hard to resist.