Matters of the Heart

He's an attractive, egotistical, womanizing baseball player. She's a caring, friendly, Christian woman. He has secrets. She has secrets. Both have accepted the fact that they will never marry. Welcome to "Matters of the Heart" the much-awaited sequel of "The Dance". This story follows Luke Martin and Julie Dixon, who are reunited a decade after a rocky coexistence in high school. What follows is a casual three-year pursuit of Julie by Luke. Luke, who never met a woman he couldn't have, takes an immediate shine to Julie who believes she is simply the object of a game that he is playing. It isn't until they are forced together by unusual circumstances that Luke begins rethinking his life and begins a serious pursuit of Julie. He must prove to her that he is a changing man and that his feelings for her are genuine. Julie, however, has many hurts from her past that she must address, in addition to a secret she thinks will devastate Luke, before she can allow him to be anything more than a friend.