Red Hot Steel: Love Behind Bars traces the spiritual evolution of the author, a woman who unexpectedly finds herself drawn to a captivating prisoner with a gift for words. As they correspond during his incarceration, their relationship evolves from pen-pals into a soulful friendship and eventually to the raptures of passion and unwavering devotion. Through the peaks and valleys of their colorful story-set within the gray institutional walls of prison-readers come to root for and love Jessica and Sonny, waiting with anticipation to find out whether they will ever be together on the outside. In a twist, as an international prayer effort is underway for Sonny to be set free, his potential release sparks a chain of events that galvanizes the author on her own path to freedom.