Borrowed Heartbeats
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Last published Tue, Nov 18, 2025
Felix King has been living on borrowed time-and a borrowed heart.
Ten years after the car crash that killed his parents and almost took his life, he returns home for the first time, older, sober, and still haunted by the night that changed everything.The house he grew up in now belongs to the only family he's ever known-and the girl he once loved and broke beyond repair.
But when fragments of memory begin to surface and the truth behind the crash unravels, Felix discovers that the heart beating in his chest once belonged to someone connected to the very man who destroyed his family.
A story about guilt, forgiveness, and the fragile miracle of being alive-
How do you live with a heart that isn't yours?
And what happens when it remembers before you do?
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