Tell Me Where It Hurts

Elara Whitmore listens for a living.

In a quiet mountain town, she has built a life around helping others survive grief, trauma, and pain - while carefully avoiding her own. Distance was supposed to keep the past buried. Silence was supposed to keep her safe. Instead, the weight of what she refuses to name is beginning to fracture the carefully controlled life she's created.

Leander has learned to live in the aftermath.

As a first responder, he's spent years walking into chaos, carrying the moments no one else wants to remember. He's steady, guarded, and accustomed to being the one others lean on - never the one who asks to be held. Some losses stay with you. Some scars don't show.

When their lives begin to intersect, recognition comes before trust. Drawn together by an unspoken understanding of pain, Elara and Leander find something neither expected: a presence that doesn't demand explanations, and a connection that feels dangerous in its gentleness.

But healing requires honesty - and the past doesn't stay buried forever.

As old wounds surface and truths are finally spoken, Elara and Leander must decide whether trust is worth the risk, and whether love can exist without hurt. Because some wounds don't want to be healed.

They want to be heard.

("Tell Me Where It Hurts" is a tender, faith-woven romance about grief and grace, about the sacred act of listening, and about two souls learning that healing doesn't always come from taking the pain away - but from choosing to walk through it together.)