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At eighteen, Rosalie Bennett thought she knew exactly how her life would unfold.It was supposed to include Julian Mercer. Her first love. Her best friend. The boy who called her Roo and made forever feel possible.Then life cracked open.A mother falling ill. A goodbye said in grief. A love story ended too suddenly to survive it.Ten years later, Rosalie returns to her hometown carrying her seven-month-old daughter and plans to leave again in three weeks for medical school in Edinburgh, Scotland. She only comes back for one reason: to bury Jamie Cole-their closest friend, and the one person who always believed she and Julian would find their way back to each other.But Julian is no longer hers to lose.He's engaged to Madeleine Sinclair, and with the wedding only a few weeks away, Jamie's death leaves the entire ceremony unfinished. When Rosalie offers to help a kind stranger overwhelmed by grief and planning, she never expected it to be as difficult as it was, being around the man she never truly forgot.Now Rosalie must spend three weeks choosing cakes, songs, flowers, and vows for a wedding that should have been hers.As old feelings rise and long-buried truths come to light, Rosalie and Julian are forced to face the question neither of them has ever escaped:Was their love simply wrong for its time-or are some people meant to find each other in every version of life?…

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Elaine Brown has spent most of her twenty-three years in hospital rooms - a girl with a failing heart and too much light in her soul to sit still. The nurses call her sunshine, the doctors call her stubborn, and her best friend calls her trouble. To Elaine, the hospital isn't just where she lives - it's her universe. A place she fills with laughter, pranks, and stories so she doesn't have to think about the ticking in her chest.When a quiet, brooding new patient named Calian is assigned to share her room, Elaine sees it as an opportunity for friendship. He sees it as a nightmare. But the more she talks (and talks... and talks), the more she chips away at the walls he's built around himself.Calian is an artist whose lungs are failing him - a boy who's running out of air but still finds a way to make beauty out of what's left.Together, they navigate the strange rhythm of life inside four white walls: laughter through pain, hope through fear, and love in the unlikeliest of places.But hospitals are full of goodbyes, and Elaine knows that some stories are written in breaths, not chapters. Still, she believes in one thing with her whole, fragile heart - that even when life hurts, there's always art in the act of staying alive.A story about life inside hospital rooms - about friendship, loss, art, and the fragile beauty of still being here.…

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At twenty-four, Liora feels like life is happening somewhere just out of reach.Chronic pain and exhaustion have made her world smaller than she ever imagined it would be. While everyone else seems to be rushing forward-traveling, dreaming, living-she has learned to exist carefully within the limits of a body that rarely cooperates.Then she meets someone who experiences the world in a completely different way.He's blind.But where she sees limitation, he hears possibility.He notices the sound of rain before storms arrive, the shift in wind through trees, the quiet music hidden inside ordinary moments. And when she confesses that she feels like life is passing her by, he offers her a simple challenge:Borrow time from the world.Once a month, they take a trip together-a few days away from everything-to experience places slowly and deeply instead of rushing through them. Across fifteen months, their journey carries them through distant landscapes, crowded cities, and quiet corners of the world where life feels suddenly larger than either of them expected.As the months unfold, she begins to understand something she never believed before:Life was never about how much she could do.It was always about how deeply she could feel it.…

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A love letter that aches.A goodbye note that holds all the memories And two souls hanging on by a thread.Astra is no stranger to grief. She lost her little sister, Harley, and the silence left behind has followed her ever since. But when she meets Orson-a quiet boy with haunted eyes and too many secrets-something in her begins to stir again. Something like hope.Orson is planning to die. He's counted the days, written the note, and picked the place. But then comes Astra-light-filled, stubborn, and terrifyingly kind-and suddenly, letting go doesn't feel so simple.As the days draw closer to Orson's planned goodbye, Astra finds herself falling for the boy made of silence and sorrow. And Orson, against every part of him that has given up, starts to wonder: what if he stayed?…

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This is a collection of the words I never said -poems and song lyrics written through depression, heartbreak, and the quiet moments that saved me.It's about the nights that felt endless,the mornings that almost didn't happen,and the small, stubborn hope that kept me breathing anyway.These are all the things I didn't say out loud.But maybe you'll hear them now.…