Patricia Yager Delagrange

A Heart Life Patricia Yager Delagrange

Leena Coughlin is simply eye-candy to her husband Steven's sky-rocketing career. Steven may be a brilliant cardiac surgeon, but the self-absorbed man is more focused on other people's hearts-and his own pleasure-than on the emotional heart of his family. He's a God-like man, after all, saving lives every day. And a man like him has needs. More than Leena can provide. To fend off the growing loneliness of her marriage, Leena strikes up a relationship with a stranger, Michael Casspi, through a letters-to-prisoners program. Michael was also once a cardiac surgeon. He claimed that assisting his dying wife with suicide was an act of mercy. The state called it murder. Can a man imprisoned behind bars fill Leena's emotional void? Focused on their own strained relationship, neither Steven nor Leena has noticed the deteriorating mental health of their college-aged daughter, Joy. Two men. One woman. And a fragile girl teetering on the knife-edge of depression. But when Michael is unexpectedly released from prison, the precarious balance of all their lives will be dramatically altered forever.