Publisher's Synopsis
At 16 years of age, Daniel Henson killed his family on a walnut ranch in Merced, California one cold November night. Shane Pierce went to high school with Daniel. They were in the same English class, the same dance class, rode the same bus home and lived near each other. He was the object of her affection, and he didn't even know she existed.When Shane heard about the murders, she couldn't believe it. "No, not my Daniel!" The last she heard, he was being extradited back to Merced from Phoenix, Arizona. Her mom told her he would probably be executed. "They'll probably fry him."For the next twenty years, Shane wondered what happened to her Daniel. Now and then, she'd attempt to find him. She finally gave him up for dead. Until one day someone left a Merced Sun Star newspaper on her desk at work, and there he was...her Daniel, her ugly."He's alive!" she shouted, gasping for air. He was incarcerated nearby at California's Valley State Prison. She wrote to him that day. Friendship quickly turned to romance. Now she shares his story for the first time, his incredible transformation from murderer to peacemaker during those years behind bars."I want people to know he's not a monster," she shares.
