Black Heart Mississippi

20-year-old Isabella from the state of Louisiana, USA, suffers from chronic heart muscle inflammation, which almost led to her death. It was only through the transplantation of the heart of a Mississippi housekeeper who died in a car accident that Isabella was given a second life. Even before the surgery, she felt this intense feeling in her heart of missing someone. This feeling gives her the idea to search for her unknown grandmother and eventually leads her to the neighboring state of Mississippi.

There she meets 80-year-old Ava. A life-experienced, well-known writer with a sad past, of which no one suspects. It is only through Isabella's search for her biological grandmother that Ava's past slowly rises to the surface and is revealed, albeit not entirely voluntarily, thanks to Isabella's persistence.

Stephanie Doench is a German writer and poet. She was born in 1982 and lives in Germany. The play "What we are missing at Christmas", written by herself, was premiered by a daycare center in December 2019. In the summer of 2021, she published her first romance novel, "I Found My Heart Through You." A year later, Doench published her first children's book "Mila Milchsuppe". In early 2023, her booklet about the crazy dentist Dr. Wurzelschuh was published. Her first English-language publication is the translation of the novel "I Found My Heart Through You," which was published in the spring of 2023 under the title "Black Heart Mississippi."