Whispers of the Heart

Summary

Days after completing her fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology, thirty-five-year-old Aki Williams travels from her home in Los Angeles to a small town in Illinois, interviewing for a job that she doesn’t want. What she does want is to meet her biological sister, Jack Camdon, a sister whom she didn’t know existed until she dreamt of her. Upon their meeting, many things surprise her: that Jack’s a lesbian with a wife and children; that she’s a dreamer who dreams in spirit animals; and that she’s a medicine woman, deeply rooted in the Ojibwe culture. 

Three years ago on Sunday, forty-three-year-old professor of archaeology, Carsyn Lyndon, lost her parents and her wife in a tragic accident. Since, she’s suffered from PTSD and loneliness. She’s kind-hearted and handsome but dates no one. When she meets Aki at her four-year-old Godson’s birthday party, they’re incredibly attracted to one another, and those feelings intensify during a family camping trip—a particularly interesting development for Aki since prior to that she’d never considered that she might be a lesbian. As Aki comes to terms with her sexuality, Carsyn renews a vow not to make the same mistake twice, a mistake that had devastating consequences. 

With seemingly no middle ground, an accident will bring them together, forcing them to re-examine their priorities. But will love, even love at first sight, be enough for them to move forward as a couple?