Not in the Heart

 Fiction by Chris Fabry

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Journalist Truman Wiley and his wife Ellen are separated and estranged, but still bound together emotionally by their children, Abby and Aiden. Aiden is eighteen and suffers from a congenital heart defect; he doesn't have much time left unless he receives a transplant. 

Terelle is a death row inmate set to be executed in thirty days who says he wants to donate his heart to Aiden, because he has found God in prison and wants to make his truncated life meaningful. Although harvesting organs from condemned prisoners is an ethical problem (to say the least), the Wileys know the state governor and feel like he just might be able to make this happen. 

But Terelle, who has always maintained his innocence, wants his story told before he dies, and he wants Truman to write it. What can Truman uncover in thirty days? If Terelle IS actually innocent, what about Aiden's heart transplant?

This story was pretty good but not great. I really disliked Truman's character, and some of the plot was too contrived.

I also read by this author: Borders of the Heart