Change of Heart

Sometimes love is worth risking everything. A New York Times bestseller.

"What a beautiful book! Readers will be haunted, as I am, by the characters who become so real and come to matter so much. I loved it." - Danielle Steel, author of First Sight and Matters of the Heart

"I fell in love with Sharlie. I laughed with her, cried with her, and rooted for her. A lovely, tender story, moving and well told." - Barbara Taylor Bradford, author of Secrets from the Past and A Woman of Substance

Sharlie Converse is twenty-six with a vivid and romantic interior life. Born with a heart defect that has defeated an army of specialists, she has lived her short life from moment to moment. Everything that matters most to her – color, excitement, adventure – is forbidden except in her imaginings and in the secret yearnings that she has long accepted will never be made real.

Until, on a cross town bus packed with Christmas shoppers, she falls into Brian Morgan’s arms. And Sharlie, whom love can kill, must make the agonizing choice: to risk her life by loving or never really to live at all.

"A heartbreaker. Sally Mandel manages to say a good deal about love and loss and courage." - Publisher's Weekly

"Takes off where Helen Van Slyke left off: wealthy Manhattan setting...sophisticated characters...an emotionally intense story line." - Library Journal

"A book that seizes the heart. CHANGE OF HEART has all the ingredients of a good yarn, the sort we long for: I loved it." - Nancy Milford, author of Zelda