28 parts Complete A contemporary novel of quiet love, invisible illness, and the ache of what we leave behind.
When nineteen-year-old Alina Hayes moves to Edinburgh, she doesn't expect to be seen. Guarded and quietly battling a rare heart condition, she drifts through life, invisible in the crowd-until she meets Nick, a quiet, gentle art student who sketches the world like it's something worth remembering.
Their connection is slow, careful, and deeply personal. With Nick, Alina begins to soften. She lets herself be known-for the first time in years. But as her heart condition worsens, she's forced to face a terrifying reality: her time may be running out.
Nick remains by her side, refusing to walk away, even as Alina's body begins to fail her. And then-just when everything begins to feel possible-life changes in an instant. Alina receives the call that might save her life.
But survival comes with loss. As she recovers from surgery, haunted by dreams and fragments of memory, Alina feels the presence of someone she can't name but can't forget.
The Heart He Left Me is a deeply emotional story of first love, grief, identity, and the invisible threads that bind us together. Through memory, art, and the quiet rhythm of healing, Alina must choose whether to live with the weight of what she's lost-or for the person who made survival possible.
"Sometimes the heart you lose is the one that saves you.Sometimes the heart you lose is the one that saves you"