It’s not so much a change of heart, and about longstanding relationship. when it began and what the character of the relationship is probably can’t know easily or at all. but it was without question an enduring one.cold mountain really owner of awards. this is a 1997 historical novel.its tell the story of W .P .Inman, a wounded deserter from the confederate army near the end of the american civil war who walks for months to return to ada monroe, the love of his life. the story shares serval similarities with homer’s the odyssey . I am really felling great after reading this book.