Chained Hearts (Cakes and Champagne Series #6)

Joaquin, a psychiatrist haunted by an abusive past, has spent years trying to heal others while hiding his own scars. Abandoned by his father at five, he learned that love often leaves.

When he moves to a quiet province to serve as a public doctor, he meets Creech, a boy who hasn't spoken since witnessing his parents' brutal murder years ago. His silence carries the weight of trauma, and yet, in that stillness, Joaquin finds peace.

Their connection grows fragile but real, a love sketched from pain and longing. But everything shatters when Joaquin discovers the truth, his estranged father is the same man who killed Creech's parents.

Now, love and guilt intertwine, binding them in chains neither can break.
Yet even through heartbreak and silence, their hearts learn that forgiveness can still bloom, and that sometimes, being chained means never letting go.

Chained Hearts is a story of wounds, forgiveness, and a love that survives even the cruelest past.