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Counting the Pulse

Counting the Pulse

Price, Jonathan

Paperback

RomanceGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798235359215
Publisher: Jonathan Price
Published: Aug 19 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Charles Miller is a man who trusts in tolerances, load-bearing capacities, and the cold, unyielding logic of steel. As a high-end structural engineer in Chicago, he has spent three years perfecting a life of total isolation-an architectural masterclass in emotional numbness following the silent collapse of his marriage. He believes that if he can just calculate the stress points of his days, nothing can ever hurt him again. But a routine survey in the humid, neon-drenched heat of Miami shatters his foundation. A single night of relapsed intimacy with his estranged wife, Sarah, ends not in closure, but in a horrific discovery: a crimson stain on a hotel sheet that Sarah tries desperately to hide. One month later, Charles is summoned back to the coast to face a biological nightmare. Sarah is dying of an aggressive, metastatic choriocarcinoma-a cancer that feeds on pregnancy hormones. And she is pregnant with his child. Thrust into the role of medical proxy, Charles must navigate a grueling mechanical vigil. To save the daughter he has never met, he must agree to turn the woman he once loved into a biological machine, sustained by ventilators and feeding tubes for sixteen agonizing weeks. The Counting the Pulse is a haunting, atmospheric exploration of the narrow tolerances of human grief. It is a story of absolute sacrifice, tracing a father's journey through a clinical purgatory to construct a future from the wreckage of a love that refused to stay buried.

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