Hug Dancing

Shelby Hearon’s excellent twelfth novel opens, “And they lived happily ever after.” It ends, “Once upon a time.” The opening and closing lines echo many of the themes of the novel. The book opens with Cile Tate leaving her Presbyterian preacher husband to return to the early love of her life, Drew Williams. The fact that Cile and Drew are both married complicates things, and they have to bring four lives to endings and beginnings.

When Cile decides to leave Eben Tate, she is amazed when he a...