Description
A woman's journey from the torment of the past leads to a hidden place in her heart... a place that only another woman can touch.Despondent after years of abuse, Clara Webster decides to end it all and swims out into the deep waters of the Texas Gulf. Totally exhausted, she surrenders to the relentless pull of the tide -- but sinks, rather, into the embrace of her would-be rescuer. Struggling to free herself from capture, Clara nearly drowns the intervening woman and ends up saving her life instead. The woman, recluse artist Randi Kosub, invites Clara to stay with her for a while. Distraught and with nowhere else to go, Clara accepts.While Clara strives to repair her life, the two women grow close and begin to fall in love. With Randi at her side, Clara realizes that her life is indeed worth living. In Randi's arms, she learns for the first time how it feels to desire passionately -- and how it feels to be passionately desired.When her young son is seriously injured in an accident, Clara rashes home to him, into the grip of her vengeful husband, who has no intention of letting her go. Caught in swirling crosscurrents of past and present, Clara is forced to make a devastating choice....… (more)