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Look closer: How Two Broken Hearts Learned to See Again

Look closer: How Two Broken Hearts Learned to See Again

Donald, Joy

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN13: 9798271841101
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 27 2025
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He's mastered control. She's perfected protection. Together, they'll discover that love requires neither.

Cassian Mercer has calculated every aspect of his life as a Manhattan financial analyst-except for meeting Thalia Corwen. When he approaches the gifted art restorer at a gallery opening, her observation about a photograph-everything they're missing-strikes uncomfortably close to home. She sees through his walls. He sees past her grief. And suddenly, two people who've spent years avoiding vulnerability can't look away.

But old patterns die hard.

Five years after losing her fiancé, Thalia has poured herself into restoring damaged paintings because they're safer than risking her heart again. Cassian has built a fortress of spreadsheets and efficiency, convincing himself that emotions are just obstacles to optimize away. As their connection deepens, both must choose: retreat to comfortable emptiness, or risk everything for the terrifying beauty of being fully present.

Set in New York's art world, Look Closer is an emotionally intelligent romance about two broken people learning that restoration-whether of a 17th-century masterpiece or a guarded heart-requires patience, courage, and believing something beautiful exists beneath the surface.

Perfect for readers who love slow-burn romance, realistic character growth, art-inspired love stories, and relationships built on genuine emotional depth.

Sometimes the most important things in life can't be planned. They can only be revealed-one vulnerable moment at a time.

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