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Heart Rate: A heartfelt plus-sized slow-burn hospital romance where courage, healing, and chemistry beat in perfect rhythm
Paperback
Series: Curves Worth Keeping: Bbw Romances about Self-Worth, Sensuality, and Starting Over, Book 18
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When Nurse Mia Lopez walks into another twelve-hour shift at St. Luke's, she expects chaos-not the new cardiologist with the unfairly kind eyes and the nerve to challenge her mid-code. Dr. Jack Whitaker is brilliant, infuriating, and far too observant for someone she's determined to keep at arm's length.
Mia has built her world on control: clean lines, steady heartbeats, and no time for distractions. But Jack moves through the hospital with quiet conviction and an unshakable belief that care should go both ways. When professional friction turns into something far more electric, they'll have to learn whether trust can coexist with fear-or if love demands a different kind of courage.
As they run side by side-literally-training for a charity marathon and navigating long nights of emergencies, their banter becomes lifeline, their touch a confession. Each moment forces Mia to confront what she's always avoided: that her size was never the obstacle she thought it was, and that vulnerability might be the bravest act of all.
A tender, slow-burn medical romance, Heart Rate pulses with humor, heartbreak, and quiet triumph. For readers who crave grounded, emotionally intelligent love stories where BBW heroines take up space-joyfully, unapologetically-and find partners strong enough to match their rhythm.
In the fluorescent hum of hospital nights, Mia and Jack discover that the most powerful kind of healing isn't written in charts-it's found in the steady beat of two hearts finally learning to rest in sync.
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