Kimmywoodard
The Hearts We Choose*
Liam Reynolds learned early that loving someone means risking their loss.
He was seven when his father died in a car crash and eleven when his older brother, Noah, spent five months in a coma. Now beginning college, Liam wants to build a life beyond hospitals, grief, and his family's constant protection.
Then three men change everything.
Mateo Alvarez is gentle and dependable, but the weight of his family's struggling restaurant threatens the music-filled future he secretly wants. Julian Hart hides his fear of rejection behind jokes and a camera, determined to prove that the parents who abandoned him were wrong. Sebastian Vale is Liam's childhood best friend-the boy who disappeared without saying goodbye and returns carrying dangerous secrets about his controlling father.
What begins as separate connections slowly becomes something none of them expected. Liam, Mateo, Julian, and Sebastian don't simply fall for Liam-they fall in love with one another, forming six unique bonds within one extraordinary relationship.
But Sebastian's powerful father considers love a weakness. As threats, stolen photographs, family secrets, and old trauma close around them, the four men must decide whether fear will separate them or teach them how fiercely they are willing to fight for one another.
Connected to *The Shape We Choose*, *The Hearts We Choose* is a passionate story about grief, healing, found family, and four men discovering that love doesn't have to be divided to be real.
Sometimes home isn't a place.
Sometimes it is the hearts that choose to stay.