IN HIS EYES

She had spent years learning how to take up less space.
He was about to show her that she never needed to.

Lianshater Gemande has always known what people see when they look at her.

Too big.
Too much.
Never quite enough.

So when she leaves Nigeria for Canada with a suitcase full of dreams and a heart carefully locked away, she makes herself a promise: no distractions, no romance, no reasons to doubt herself-just work.

Then there's Dr Ebube Chukwujekwu.

A brilliant Nigerian cardiologist with steady hands, a complicated past, and an inconvenient habit of looking at Lian like she is the most beautiful thing in the room.

He knows how to read a heartbeat.

What he doesn't know is what to do with his own when she walks in.

Between late-night conversations, stolen smiles, ice cream runs, old wounds, and the strange comfort of finding home in another person, Lian begins to wonder if love could really be this gentle.

But falling in love is easy compared to believing you deserve to be loved.

And before Lian can let Ebube love her, she has to confront every cruel voice that taught her she was difficult to love in the first place.

A short and tender Nigerian love story about self-worth, forgiveness, vulnerability, and the kind of love that doesn't ask you to become smaller-only to finally let yourself be seen.