Shelby Hearon Book order (chronological)

After a long, painful affair and a painful marriage, respectively, Nell Woodard and Nicholas Clark, both in their forties, move toward love via paths strewn with the exasperations of family and the confusions of the past

The Texas Congresswoman describes her childhood in Houston, her years in segregated schools, her entry into the white world while attending Boston University Law School, and her breakthrough into politics