Bend your Chest Open

​Kristin has spent her life standing between other people and the grave.

To the world, she is a fearless emergency responder. In reality she is a woman trading her own rapidly diminishing time to buy a few more minutes for total strangers. She had made peace with her terminal diagnosis, planning to fade away quietly while doing the only thing that gave her peace.

​But peace is a fragile thing, and it shatters completely when Ethan re-enters her orbit.

​He doesn't look at her like a tragedy to be managed; he looks at her like the woman he still loves. His presence breathes life back into a heart that was supposed to be shutting down. For the first time in years, Kristin is forced to look at the ticking clock and feel a cold, suffocating terror.

​Now, she is torn. Rae Hoon stands in one corner, offering clinical survival and fierce protection to keep her alive. Ethan stands in the other, offering a love so profound it makes her want to fight for a future that doesn't exist.

​When a heart is breaking, do you choose the one who keeps it beating, or the one who makes it worth beating for?

Started: May 2023