It happened without warning. She was slim and fit, ate all her vegetables, never touched a cigarette. There was no family history of heart disease. Yet somehow, at the age of 44 and in the middle of her weekly yoga class, Deborah Heffernan felt her heart explode...An Arrow Through the Heart is the unflinching chronicle of the first - and, potentially, last - year after a woman's near-death from heart attack. Anchored by the fierce love of her husband, and by their two families, Deborah went from corporate high achiever to learning to do simple things all over again - and how to live every day as if it was her last. Of course, the heart is more than a muscle, and this is a story about healing the soul as well as the body.