A Heart Beyond

Leigh Ann Eden had a great life in New York as a partner in a public relations business she'd helped to build-and lost it all when her father was charged with financial crimes. She wasn't involved in his business or the fraud, but her very public role as the face of the PR firm made her a target for media, federal investigators, angry investors, and even the merely curious. She couldn't withstand the pressure. She went into hiding, and avoidance became a way of life. Her cousin, Florence, offered her a place to hide in her home in the Fan District of Richmond, Virginia. She was a lifesaver for Leigh for almost two years, but Florence died, and now Leigh's alone and doesn't know how to un-hide herself, how to find the courage to get a public life again-until the day an unexpected event occurs during her weekly trip to buy groceries and she comes home with a cat-an unfriendly cat who's just as unhappy with the situation as she is. Her careful routine disrupted, Leigh is swept along as fate seems determined to force her out of the narrow life she's constructed. She must act. But reemerging into everyday life won't be that simple, because the sins of the past-even though she wasn't a party to them-will come back to harm her.