Threatened by an early childhood heart infection, Carolyn Bourns spends the first half of her life carefully building structures she has been told will keep her safe-husband, home, children, teaching career-but when she begins experiencing alarming heart arrhythmias at age forty-five, these structures start to dissolve, compelling her to take a close look at how safe and ideal her life really is. Follow Bourns as she recounts the extraordinary events that cast her out of the ordinary world of her birth and into the extraordinary world of the unseen as her heart continues to speak deeper truths.