| A HEART LIES WITHIN US is the 84,000 word love story of how two imperfect lives can make one perfect love in an unsettled world as they come to understand, lies hide nothing, and if you lie long enough, that deceit becomes the truth you carry within your heart until you allow love to release you.
After I found the box of lies under my dead mother's bed, and killed Theo Finley, I burned down my house. I thought, with everyone dead, my life should be better.
I found this guy, Charlie, and he gave me a job. Then he taught me everything he knew about the liquor business, gambling, and how to make a buck. Now, he's dead too, but not before leaving me everything. It seems everyone I've ever loved has lied or died.
One night, while working behind the bar, this woman stormed in from a night so cold your teeth could have stuck together. She was spectacular, but I could see she was in no mood for friendly conversation. I figured I'd leave her be, but as she shed her story, and waited for a taxi, I began to see something. As she got ready to leave, I asked her for a date. She denied me, but finally gave in. I knew she would.
When I met Savannah, it didn't occur to me how the people you meet could influence your life. I thought my life was perfect; money, women, a great business, but little did I know, my only chance to survive was this beautiful woman that just happened to walk into my bar.
After a life full of lies from people I should have been able to trust, I believed love could never survive. Savannah became the first woman to break through my reserve as if God put her there just for me. Far from perfect, she was fresh out of a lousy relationship, in a stalled career, and she was living as best she could. Still, she believed I was the man of her dreams. She also told me the last thing she needed was another man with baggage so I'd better straighten my ass out.
The charged atmosphere that crackles between Lucas and Savannah is enticing, but she knows she can never put her faith in a man of secrets. Haunted by the passion that burgeons in her soul; she looks deep into the heart of her lover and finds kindness hidden beneath his steely reserve. As her career takes off, Lucas becomes jealous of her success and she now must decide if he is worthy of her love, or should she walk away from the only man she's ever loved. Thus begins an intricate, emotional web that leads them on a passionate path of self-discovery and redemption while discovering, only within the imperfection of each other, can they survive.
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