Shadows on the Heart

<p><strong>She's driving to pick up a future she never wanted. When she gets there it's worse than she feared.</strong></p><p></p><p>When her brother dies suddenly and she's named legal guardian to three children she's never met Lita Bravo a tattooed thirty-two-year-old amateur mixed martial arts fighter leaves her high desert home in Arizona to drive to California a place from which she ran away years ago. Upon her arrival she finds not only three grieving children but her estranged mother who has dementia and nowhere else to go. </p><p></p><p>For Jade McGovern a serious twelve-year-old who's had the same friends since kindergarten life becomes unhinged when her parents die. Forced to move to a new state to live with a foul-mouthed incompetent aunt Jade decides to do anything she can to get back to California.</p><p></p><p>Evie Long whose life loves and libations have always come first really wants a drink. She doesn't recognize the daughter who ran away nearly twenty years ago and wonders when she'll find her missing daughter. </p><p></p><p>As Evie falls deeper into her memories and Jade takes steps down a troublesome path Lita struggles to parent and cope with a mother she never thought she'd see again. <strong>SHADOWS ON THE HEART</strong> told from the perspective of three unique narrators explores the bonds of family and friendship and the rippling impact of loss grief and addiction across generations. </p>