The Heart Mender

A unique blend of historical fact and engaging fiction showing the power of forgiveness.While digging up a withering wax myrtle tree beside his waterfront home on the Gulf coast, author Andy Andrews unearths a rusted metal container filled with Nazi artifacts and begins an intriguing investigation that unlocks an unspoken past that took place in his backyard...literally.In 1942, as the country gears up for a full–scale commitment to WWII, German subs are dispatched to the Gulf of Mexico to sink U.S. vessels carrying goods and fuel. While taking a late–night walk, Helen Mason–widowed by war–discovers the near–lifeless body of a German sailor. Enraged at the site of Josef Landermann's uniform, Helen is prepared to leave him to die when an unusual phrase, faintly uttered, changes her mind.Set in a period simmering with anger and suspicion The Heart Mender offers the very real chronicle of asmall town preparing itself for the worst the world has to offer. As...