COLD HEARTED

At twenty-seven years of age, C�el Darcie - African American, beautiful, fashionable, honest, and ambitious - liked where she was in her life. She owned a beautiful little condo in Las Vegas, a gleaming new car, and had a great job and loving boyfriend. But everything changes when life takes an unexpected turn. C�el learns she is pregnant and she s deserted by her boyfriend when she refuses an abortion. She faces the question - What now? She chooses to live a brave life that honors what she believes in. This unfurls a series of events leading up to a horrible accident. Or, was it? C�el wakes up from coma to find that she has no memory of her life whatsoever or the events that led to her condition. Helped by her friends Amanda and Christopher, C�el slowly tries to get her groove back, but soon realizes that everything is not what it seemed. Her ex-boyfriend Michael was dead, and there were pieces missing in the whole puzzle. Why had Michael been in Las Vegas? Was it really a random, freak accident? Who was lying? C�el strives to connect the dots in her fragmented memories, a quest that takes her from Vegas to Texas, to Florida, and then back to impending danger lurking around the corner. Fast paced and emotionally charged, Cold Hearted is a novel about love, hate, deceit, and the darkness of the fickle human mind._,