Dr. Cara Ellis has spent seventeen years helping other people open their hearts, and sixteen years making absolutely certain no one opens hers. Brilliant, composed, and quietly devastated by losses she has never spoken aloud, she has built a life of considerable purpose on a single rule she does not let people in. Not in the way that changes things. Not in the way that hurts. But when Robert Hale, a man of sixty-four who does not believe in therapy and cannot locate the rest of himself, walks into her office and begins, session by session, to become the most honest person she has ever sat across from, Cara finds that the rule she has kept for sixteen years is not as solid as she believed and that the crack in it has a shape she recognizes, and a name she is not yet ready to say. Two Worlds is a story about the gap between the life we perform and the one we are too frightened to live , about a woman who knows everything about the human heart except how to trust her own, and the two men who, in different ways, make the cost of that distrust impossible to ignore any longer. Find out more about the gap between the life we perform and the one we are frightened to liv