Heroes of the Heart

Emerson and Claudia didn t have much in common. He was an intelligent loner; she was a shy, but beautiful, sales representative. They didn t like the same movies or aspire to the same dreams. But they did have one important thing in common: they both needed someone, someone to help them move beyond their tragic pasts. She had a past she could not manage to forget; he had a past he could not manage to piece together. It would be natural to wonder whom, or maybe what, was responsible for their unlikely meeting on an icy road high in the Sierra Mountains. Was it fate, God, forces of nature, or just sheer dumb luck that brought them together? Whatever it may have been, they were soon to realize that the only chance either of them had for true peace delicately hinged on the compassion of the other.