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The Space Between Your Heartbeats
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Publisher: Prosee Books
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Some hearts don't break - they just forget how to beat.
Imani has everything mapped out. Color-coded planners. A caregiving roster for her siblings. A smile for the hallway that never quite reaches her eyes. If she can keep chaos on paper, she can keep it from spilling into the rest of her life - or so she tells herself.
Then a letter arrives, written in uneven loops by a boy named Eli who seems to understand the language of things left unsaid. No grand confessions. Just words pressed between metaphors, trembling at the edges of everything he's afraid to ask for. And something in Imani - something she's been pressing flat for years - stirs.
The Space Between Your Heartbeats is a tender, lyrical YA romance about two guarded souls learning that vulnerability isn't weakness - it's the only thing that can make love real. Set against the quiet intimacy of handwritten letters, wilting orchids, and rainy evenings, it asks the question every over-achiever eventually has to face:
What if the thing you've been protecting yourself from is the only thing that could save you?
Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and The Poet X, this is a story about the courage it takes to stop planning - and finally start living.
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