When a man decides to face the desert, to challenge that wretched span of God’s handiwork, he puts something on the line....like as not it won’t be man’s skin doesn’t make it out of the desert. It’s something else. And sometimes a man makes it out whole, but carries something back. Something meant for elsewhere.And if he makes it out, even flees across the sea, what then? What of the life he tries to make and the people he chooses to love? Green grass and horses can’t protect a man who’s done evil, and brought evil following him.Good Heart is the story of a cowboy who finds himself a stranger in a strange land. There he retrieves what he's sure is something special, a necklace he was paid to lose. Soon thereafter, though, he's pursued by dark strangers who know his name, who know the orphan girl in his unlikely charge, and threaten the life he is trying to build for himself with the first woman he's ever allowed himself to love. And somehow in the midst of it all he believes it is something to do with a spectacular horse he calls his own.