Between The Heartbeats Of Us

Some loves don't begin with fireworks, they begin in the quiet. In the pause between heartbeats. In the moments we almost say what we mean.

Dr. Audenzia Kaia Velora has always been the one who leaves for dreams, for duty, for something bigger than herself. A doctor in a world that never slows down, she's learned to bury her heart beneath white coats and missed calls.

But then there's Joshua.

The man who waited in doorways.
Who stayed after the shift ended.
Who asked if she'd eaten, even when she hadn't spoken in days.

In another life, they might've had time. But this one asks too much. And so they love each other in fragments, through hospital hallways, unsent letters, and birthdays spent apart. Through the ache of almost everything and the weight of words left unspoken.

Years pass. Hearts change. But some loves don't leave, they linger. In the empty chairs. In the scent of a garden. And in the silence that follows: still, steady, waiting.

Between the Heartbeats of Us is a tender, aching novel about the love that remains even when the world tries to unwrite it about coming back when it's hardest, and choosing again when the heart is no longer certain.
Because sometimes, love doesn't need to be loud.

Sometimes, it's enough that it stays.
Even when everything else didn't.

Between the Heartbeats of Us
by Hershey O.