Open Hearts

Lily is a successful novelist hiding a crippling secret: she is trying to write a love story, but is terrified of intimacy.

Sent away to the red rock haven of Sedona to reset her creative block, she receives one strict mandate from her agent: "Stop writing love. Start living it."

Isaiah is just looking for a place to breathe.

Escaping a suffocating life in Los Angeles, he books a month-long retreat under a fake name, Jay, seeking refuge in a town where no one asks too many questions.

He's here because he forgot what feeling anything was like.

When they reach for the same blueberry muffin in a local coffee shop, they spark a connection neither saw coming.

Their accidental encounters quickly evolve into a quiet rhythm of morning hikes, shared coffee, and late-night porch confessions.

In a town built for exhausted creatives, they find safety in a mutual agreement: they don't ask what the other does.

But their time in the desert is running out.

As Lily's manuscript finally begins to feel dangerously real and Isaiah's self-imposed exile comes to an end, the secrets they left behind in Los Angeles threaten to shatter their sanctuary.

Can a love built in the quiet spaces of the world survive the glaring, electric lights of reality?

Find out in OPEN HEARTS