Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.
The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

