Home Is Where The Heart Lies

<p><strong>As a hot-headed college senior</strong> who's led a privileged life Rachel is particularly frustrated when she's forced to serve community service over the holidays at a soup kitchen in 2007 Montreal. </p><p>Yet the experience starts opening her eyes to a world she had previously disdained especially when she meets Ben a former Iraq war vet. Fascinated intrigued and admittedly attracted she can't help but want to dig deeper into the mysterious artist/poet. But a broken man with PTSD and personal trauma who has given up on life is not easily won despite the help she tries to give him.</p><p><em>Will Rachel be able to convince Ben he's worth so much more than he believes?</em> Or will a life-threatening emergency have to tip his heart?(41k words)</p>