How long can you shield others before your own past destroys you?
Parrish and Dillon dedicate their days to helping women at a domestic violence shelter escape abusive homes. But behind their professional boundaries lie unhealed trauma and dangerous secrets.
When tragedy strikes close to home and the system repeatedly fails to protect the people they love, their professional distance shatters. Driven past their limits by grief and rage, both women are pushed toward a fateful breaking point.
Hardened Hearts is a dark psychological fiction novel about what happens when women are forced to rewrite the rules and create their own justice.