Fire Heart A Coming of Age Novel about Risking Your Heart and Embracing the Fire of Love

There are times in our lives when we encounter love so profound, so powerful that the life you've always planned for gets interrupted by the love you've desperately longed for.Such is the case for 18-year-old Nicky Young. High school is officially over, and she has been planning on attending Stanford, but he very hot and very desirable Goliath baseball star Ryan Tilton has other ideas.As their relationship begins to heat up, Ryan wants her to commit to him. Nicky is wanting him too, but suspicious of his intentions. Especially when ex-lovers keep showing up! How can she commit herself to Ryan when she is so close to the independence she has longed for ever since she was a young girl.As they become more and more intimate, childhood memories of being abused by her father and her sister's rape at age 14, feelings of deep shame come pouring through Nicky's mind. She desperately wants to open her heart but cannot live through the pain of being abandoned again.What lengths will she go to stay strong when what she really craves at the deepest levels of her being is standing right in front of her?