The Stillness Between Heartbeats
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Last published Thu, May 1, 2025
Mira Lane is a soft-spoken screenwriter with a past full of silence and a heart that flinches at love. She's built a quiet life around her cat Lolo, her words, and a persistent fear of closeness-a fear with a name: philophobia. When Lolo falls ill, Mira stumbles into the sterile world of Elias Mercer, a wealthy but emotionally wrecked veterinarian who treats animals better than he trusts people. Cold, clinical, and haunted by a love that broke him, Elias has no room for messy things like hope... or shy women with starlit eyes.
But what begins as an awkward vet visit turns into a slow-burning entanglement of vulnerability, healing, and buried pain. As Mira's career suddenly rises and Elias's walls begin to crack, both must confront the truths they buried long ago. Because love-real love-requires surrender.
And some wounds aren't visible on X-rays.
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