June's first husband was killed in a car crash eighteen years ago. Against all the odds, her daughter was uninjured -- and, in another miracle, June found love again with the policeman who rescued them. Six years later they were a happy family, June pregnant with their own child. Now June's second daughter is twelve, and dying without the new heart she so urgently needs. And her first daughter, along with her husband, is dead, killed by Shay Bourne, an itinerant workman they welcomed into their home. The crime was so heinous that Shay has been given the death penalty -- for the first time in 69 years in New Hampshire. Shay is going to die, and he is looking for redemption. He wants to give June's daughter his heart ...