The Heart Rules the Night is not just another predictably redundant romance novel. Rev. Kyle Campbell, feels himself being sucked into the darkness of an emotional abyss. Standing at the rim is one lone glimmer of light - Kari. She is from a different continent - a different culture - decades younger. Any relationship between Kyle and Kari would be impossible - culturally reprehensible; however, Kyle and Kari's world, from the moment their eyes meet, is a world of its own. Their world forms as characters from "beyond the veil" pull them, push them together. A past-lives sister, Aidan, warns Kyle of the certain disaster, "She will hurt you. She always has. She always will." Still, there is no denying a love which crosses all boundaries of time and space to bring them into one another's arms. Kyle is in a decades-long celibate marriage to a person who has ceased to acknowledge his being. Kari had bound herself to a soldier years earlier to escape a culture which treats women as chattel. Kyle has finished his last goal of successfully helping his children complete university. Kari's husband has now become dangerously abusive with each return from long deployments. She abhors the thought of his fathering any children she might have. Beneath an ever-darkening shadow, Kyle fills the hours in his life with myriad church and civic organizations. His acquaintances see him only as the take-charge organizer who always gives 100%. Inwardly isolated, Kyle searches for an acceptable end. Alone, friendless and threatened by her husband's military pals, Kari fills her days with long Skype conversations with her parents a world away, then dreads the daily 2:00 a.m. calls to his overseas base her husband demands. She sees no acceptable escape. The Heart Rules the Night is a rare and revealing romance written from a male's perspective. The depth of feeling which often hides beneath the more puerile pursuits of men is exposed. Women readers will often discover