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The line between love and hate has always been thin. Rhett Thornwood has always known exactly who he is. He knows how to work hard, be the son his parents are proud of, be the golden child the town of Cedarbrook knows him to be. He knows exactly what to do. Except when it comes to Colton Dawson. Colt came back to Cedarbrook with three simple goals—Work hard, keep his head down, and leave before anything can make him cross the line into trouble again. But Rhett Thornwood has always been his favorite line to cross.

To the world, Ava West is the ice queen of Metropolis General-a high-powered COO who maneuvers through hospital politics with the same surgical precision as the men in her family. She's built a life of Italian silk suits and corporate optics, masking a soul weary of being treated like a transactional asset. She doesn't have room for earnestness, and she certainly doesn't have room for Isabelle. Isabelle is a dedicated oncology resident with a bright future and a dangerous connection: she's the protégée of Ava's own brother.

Some connections don't build slowly. Some just… begin. Avery has always believed in control—measured choices, careful distance, and never letting anything get too close. But when she meets Riley, something shifts. Not dramatically. Not all at once. Just enough to unsettle everything she thought she understood about herself. What starts as a quiet awareness becomes something deeper—undeniable, unspoken, and impossible to ignore. Riley doesn't push. She doesn't chase. She simply stays—steady, certain, and unafraid of what's building between them. And that's what makes it dangerous.

Falling for each other was easy. Staying together? That’s another story. Avery and Riley finally found their way back to each other —but this time, love isn’t the question. It’s everything that comes after. What they have is real now. Steady. Chosen. But real love doesn’t exist in isolation —it’s tested by the outside world, by fear, by timing, and by the parts of themselves they’re still learning to understand. As their relationship deepens, so do the cracks beneath it.

Some endings don't end. They linger. Avery and Riley walked away from each other—but distance didn't do what it was supposed to. It didn't erase the connection. It didn't quiet the pull. It only changed it—softer, deeper, and impossible to ignore.

The Shatter Between Heartbeats is not a poetry collection. It is a psychological event. A descent into the raw architecture of the human mind, where trauma is not described but embodied-where anxiety tightens like a vice, depression seals every exit, and survival is carved line by line without anesthesia. Written by E. T. Vale and edited by Amir Kapoor, this groundbreaking anthology explores the lived experience of mental illness through twenty-four unflinching, interconnected poems.