June Nealon, a mother recovering from the loss of her first husband, second husband, and first daughter, and fearing the dreaded yet probable death of her only living family member, her eleven year old daughter, Claire.Father Michael Wright, a priest who was part of the jury who sentenced Shay Bourne, charged with the murders of Kurt and Elizabeth Nealon, to death, then, eleven years later, becomes his spiritual advisor only months before his execution.
Maggie Bloom, a lawyer who decides to take Shay Bourne as her client around the same time Father Michael takes him under his wing.
Three people eternally tied to potential "messiah" Shay Bourne, whose appearance on I-Tier means change for not only all the other inmates sentenced to life in prison, or in Shay's case, death, but also a questioning of the beliefs everyone's been taught to stand by. As Shay begins performing miracles and quoting scripture he never read right and left and no one can seem to find a single thing wrong with him, Michael and Maggie begin to wonder if Shay was actually guilty in the first place, even though he didn't plead innocent in his trial eleven years ago. However, even if Shay was found innocent, Shay vowed to kill himself. He wanted to get out of his body, away from his painful past, but most importantly, he wanted to give his heart to Claire Nealon.
Giving a heart to a small girl is more than difficult. When the heart of the twenty-some year old man is found to miraculously match Claire's, not all is well. June refuses to take the heart of the one man she hates most on Earth, Michael urges Shay to turn to Jesus for redemption instead of organ donations, and Maggie fights for Shay to get out of the lethal injection he was sentenced to and opt for a hanging instead, all in order to save a heart for someone who might not even take it.
Change of Heart is an amazing novel, one that everyone should read.
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