The Space Between Heartbeats (Free Fall Duet Book 1)

Some choices are made in a heartbeat. Others haunt you long after the screaming stops.

Maren has spent her whole life knowing the difference between the Calloway brothers. Owen is warmth, stability, and the future she always imagined. Knox is shadows, sharp edges, and the pull she's spent years pretending not to feel. Choosing Owen was supposed to be the easy part — the right part.

Then a single, terrifying moment on a rollercoaster rewrites everything.

Now Owen is gone, and Maren is left standing in the wreckage of her grief beside the one person she was never supposed to want. Knox, who challenged her at every turn. Knox, who looked at her like a secret he'd been keeping. Knox, who somehow knows exactly what she was thinking in those final, suspended seconds before everything changed.

What begins as two broken people clinging to shared loss quickly becomes something far more complicated — and far more dangerous. The guilt between them should keep them apart. Instead, it's the very thing pulling them together. Everyone around them sees healing. Nobody sees the truth simmering underneath: that tragedy has a way of burning away every careful boundary Maren ever built.

This is a dark, emotionally consuming forbidden romance about surviving grief, confronting desire you were never supposed to feel, and the terrifying possibility that the wrong choice might have always been the right one.

The fall was only the beginning.