New author Henry Parry offers an imaginative and surreal journey of compassion in his debut romance novel, The Shared Heart. A very different sort of love story, Parry writes of wanderlust and integrity in a drama that ultimately reads like a modern social commentary and proves that true love conquers all. In it, Henry King is a man without a second to lose. When he meets Agnes Parry, a slender, dark-haired beauty, at his favorite bookstore, he is smitten and later delighted that Agnes is a volunteer at the hospital where he awaits a heart transplant. But to get to the heart of the matter, their love is destined for heartache. Henry is in desperate need of a new heart, and after Agnes decides she is willing to give her heart away, in a quirk of fate, it will come to pass that hers is available. Modern technology allows her to be kept alive by a machine, as she makes her peace to reclaim what was taken from her without knowing that it is Henry who has her heart-in more ways than one.