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The Lies Between Our Heartbeats
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Publisher: Jake Markolt
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a house built of glass, there is nowhere to hide and everything to lose.
Gideon and Selah Ashford are the Pacific Northwest's golden couple. He is a rising political star with an impenetrable charisma; she is a celebrated photographer famous for capturing the unfiltered truth of her subjects. They live in a masterpiece of modern architecture overlooking the Salish Sea, a home defined by transparency, light, and a meticulously curated perfection.
But the Architecture of Silence is built on a foundation of ash.
For ten years, Gideon and Selah have lived three inches apart while remaining total strangers. Their marriage is a Blueprint of Broken Promises, held together by the specific, necessary lies they told each other to escape their shared heritage of fire and soot. Gideon is a man of the city, hiding the teenage arsonist he once was; Selah is an artist of the light, hiding the fact that her dead family is very much alive and waiting in the shadows.
When a cryptic letter from an erased hometown arrives and a medical stress test reveals that Selah's heart rate spikes only in Gideon's presence, the glass begins to shatter. As a high-stakes corporate conspiracy led by the shadowy Sterling Group threatens to liquidate their legacy, the couple is forced into a rhythmic game of cat and mouse not just with the law, but with each other.
From the high-society galas of Seattle to the jagged basalt cliffs of the coast, The Lies Between Our Heartbeats is a surgical dissection of a marriage under pressure. It is a story of:
The Frequency of Fear: Where biometric sensors and acoustic dampeners turn a home into a high-tech cage.
The Inheritance of Smoke: Where the sins of the father are carved into cedar and buried in deep-vault ruins.
The Brutal Honesty of Ashes: Where the only way to save the future is to set the present on fire.
As the 2:00 AM hour approaches and the Sterling Group's sanitization protocols begin, Gideon and Selah must decide: Is there enough left to love when the masks are gone? Or were they only ever in love with the lies?
Raw, atmospheric, and relentlessly paced, this psychological thriller explores the terrifying distance between two people and the rhythmic, honest thump of a heart that has finally run out of places to hide.
Discover the truth. Break the frame. Read The Lies Between Our Heartbeats for the full, unfiltered story.
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