Meet Nicole Treadwell, a struggling law clerk to a recklessly ambitious judge in the Nation’s Capitol. While tending to disputing parties by day, at all other times Nicole’s personal life is painfully unraveling, threatening to dash any sanity that remains. At the end of herself, she realizes that she can’t save herself, but forgets who can. Worse still, she’s not sure that she wants to be saved. Nevertheless, a still, small voice comes to the rescue at an unlikely time, pushing her onto a path few dare to tread or openly discuss.
Meanwhile, Timothy Grue is a hotshot, private attorney accustomed to blazing trails in and out of the courtroom. Both handsome and brash owing to his privileged pedigree, he appears to have the world on a string along with practically every creature comfort easily within his reach; and since he’s never short on attention or the ability to turn the head of a woman, life for Timothy is good—maybe.
By some stroke of fortune (or misfortune), paths collide for Nicole and Tim thanks to a near-fatal motorcycle accident involving Reno Creyves, one of Hollywood’s A-List “glitterati”. In an attempt to collect what he’s due, Creyves handpicks Tim, long-time friend and associate, to represent him in the civil action against the usual suspects. At the same time, Nicole’s boss, Hon. Helena Church-Duchese, is picked to preside over the same lawsuit. Complicating matters more, the judge relishes the prospect of having her “fifteen minutes of fame” with the media at the actor’s expense (and anyone else’s, including Nicole’s). Understanding that the attention from the paparazzi may prove to be everyone’s professional undoing, Nicole comes up with a plan to keep that from happening, but she can’t do it alone. Her job potentially on the line, she places a call to Creyves’s attorney for a clandestine “meeting of the minds”; but will Tim Grue take the bait and “sign on” to Nicole’s “remedial” solution?
Things are murkier still with the little known fact Nicole and Tim are hardly strangers, but is it by accident that they’ve met after so much time apart?
Nevertheless, their meeting sets in motion a chain of events that resurrects their bitter-sweet past, unleashing the unthinkable, enabling what they left behind to orchestrate their undoing.
Against a backdrop where crises of identity, spirituality, and morality intersect, the goings-on in the foreground are on another collision course. That is, Nicole is black. Tim is white, and conflicting social issues force them to walk a careful line in the face of a reblossoming friendship with a mind all its own.
Filled with doubt, Nicole wonders if they’re kindred spirits or if stereotypical lust (on Tim’s part) is at work as they struggle with their own prejudices and notions of race and class; and given their peculiar history, Tim wants to know why race is still an issue for Nicole at all.
In the face of blindsiding family secrets (past and present) coming to light coupled with their own personal challenges, Nicole and Tim begin to understand that anything worth holding on to—their commitment to each other—is always tried by the fires of a faith that asks simply, What do you really believe?
Nicole’s restoration in her faith answers that very question, but Tim dismisses the idea of faith out of hand, and for that, both pay a steep price.
For Tim and Nicole, the road from hell to higher ground is fraught with unseen trials and many questions. Mainly, can redemption and restoration ever come too late?
A risky commingling of the secular and sacred, That Kiss From Heaven Fell On My Heart is a witty and insightful anthology that takes you back to the true meaning of faith, passion and unconditional love.
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ISBN13 (TP) 978-1-4257-6239-1
ISBN13 (HB) 978-1-4257-6241-4