The Last Breath Between Us

She followed him through the city before she knew his name.

Ayla is twenty years old and has learned how to keep people at a distance. She has built a shield of evening walks and quiet rooms and the belief that people always go - because her mother went, on a Tuesday, with a suitcase at the door and two sentences on a note.

Then there is Finn. A man with an oversized coat and gray eyes who see something most people don't see. He also fled. Also broken in its own way. And he won't leave.

Breathless is the story of two people who find each other in a city that looks like nothing, and of the life they build - slow, imperfect, real. From linden blossom in June and the river on Wednesday morning and a ring with a small irregularity in the gold. Of a child who has his father's eyes. Of love that is greater than the loss.

But it is also the story of what remains as the most beautiful thing you have is taken away from you.