One stormy night, after a fight with Wyatt, Elowyn doesn't come home.Īfter a horrific car accident, Elowyn remains in hospital, brain damaged. On her 16th birthday, Eolwyn is given a new car. Despite this, Kassey remains faithful to their friendship and supports Elowyn as her relationship with Wyatt runs into trouble.

When Elowyn gets a boyfriend, Wyatt Nolan, Kassey is left 'to figure out my life on my own'. In high school they play volleyball together and have classes together. For Kassey this is important because her father and mother split up years ago and with her mother working long hours, she misses a normal family life. She goes on vacation with Elowyn's family and spends much of her free time with Elowyn's family. As they grow up together, their relationship changes but Kassey is always a part of her friend's life. Elowyn loves lavender and French country decor (her bedroom is yellow and blue with pale purple flowers). I would recommend this to fans of McDaniels other works, My sister's keeper, or if you read about illness, death, or tear jerkers.Heart to heart explores the dynamics between three families all affected by one tragedy.Įlowyn and Kassey are best friends forever. The concept of cell memory is really bizarre to me, and it makes for an awesome story line- in fact, I just finished a similar book- Cold hands, warm heart. It was not quite as much of a tear jerker as some of her stories have been, but it still presents teens facing difficult and life changing events. I love all things Lurlene McDaniel, so it was no surprise that I enjoyed this story. When the worlds of these three girls and their families intersect, lives are changed in ways never before imagined.' When she and her mother receive the call that will change their lives, things go well at the hospital but they wonder about and re unaware of to whom it is they should be forever grateful. She’s led a sheltered life due to a diseased heart. Clair has not had the luck to have a best friend. Kassey learns of this in a shocking and devastating way-when Elowyn’s life-giving donor wish is about to be honored. And although Elowyn turns sixteen before Kassey, when she receives a brand-new car from her parents, the first thing she does is give an extra set of keys to Kassey-a symbolic confirmation of their true friendship.īut one thing Elowyn has not yet shared with Kassey is that she’s checked the organ donor box on her newly acquired license.

'ELOWYN EDEN AND Kassey Messechek are best friends.

Heart to Heart by Lurlene McDaniel