DeVore lost the love of his life ten years ago, left his seven-figure career with a huge financial firm, and became a recluse. He now indulges a hobby of photography which has become his new vocation. At one of the few social functions he attends, he meets an amazing young man. Can he find new life and new love? The game of hearts is always risky, but what if a part of your first love now lives in another body?<br><br>Tim was a preemie and always frail. Later, an organ transplant was the only thing that could save him. Now grown, he still struggles to break restrictive family ties and find a purpose. It’s a thrill to meet the charismatic DeVore, an idol whose powerful photographs move many. But is this attraction his own, or coming from the stranger’s heart now beating in his chest?

A Game of Hearts

A glance at his watch told him it was too late to consider leaving at once to head back to New Mexico, although the notion tempted him. It would be foolish to drive through the night when he was already tired and he had a perfectly good room—an elegant one, in fact—already paid for right here in Dallas. He could endure one more night away. At that moment, a sound behind him made him spin around.


Tim stood there, a shy smile on his face. “It seemed to go very well.”


DeVore nodded. “So it did. I was contemplating the tempting notion of making my escape as soon as I could get back to the room, change and gather my stuff, but I have to admit that was foolish. It’s late, I’m tired again, and I have a perfectly good room here, far better than a motel in some one-horse town between here and Magdalena, where exhaustion would force me to stop.”


Chapter 7