title: A Light in the Heart
author: O'Brien, Kathleen Mary
description: When an auto accident in a Boston suburb leaves 33-year-old model Christine McMurray's face, hands and torso disfigured and one leg with multiple fractures, she must rethink her identity. A Light in the Heart is a story of Christine's struggles with a controlling father who pushed her into beauty pageants from early childhood, a soon to be former fiance and her reluctance to believe a photographer with whom she once had a fling still finds her attractive. This complex novel of loss, betrayal and ultimately rebirth is set in Montana and on Cape Cod.