Lucas Hartwell was a man carved from ice-ruthless CEO, feared employer, a billionaire who built his empire on cold logic and merciless decisions. But a failing heart forced him to accept a transplant that saved his life and shattered everything he thought he knew about himself. Now Lucas feels things that aren't his. He wakes with paint under his fingernails from dreams of creating art he's never studied.
He craves street food he's despised. He hums melodies he's never heard. And when he meets Maya Chen-a struggling artist with haunted eyes and a smile that breaks his heart-every cell in his body recognizes her. His borrowed heart races. His hands know exactly how to touch her. And he's consumed by an inexplicable, desperate need to protect her, provide for her, give her everything without her ever having to ask.
He pays her rent anonymously. Sends security to guard her. Replaces her broken art supplies with professional equipment. Arranges her dream job with a salary that changes her life. He can't explain the compulsion-it's as essential as breathing, as natural as his heartbeat. But there's something more: he knows things about her he shouldn't. Her coffee order. Her favorite poem. The exact way she likes to be held when she cries.
Maya is drowning in grief six months after losing Daniel Park-the love of her life, her soulmate, the man who worked three jobs trying to give her the world despite their poverty. Then her mysterious new boss, the infamous Lucas Hartwell, does something that stops her heart: he quotes Daniel's favorite poem. In Daniel's exact voice. With Daniel's gestures. And when Lucas touches her, it feels like coming home to a love she thought she'd lost forever.
As Lucas unconsciously mirrors Daniel's habits-tapping his pen three times, saying "Promise you'll be happy" in goodbye, knowing intimate details of Maya's past he couldn't possibly know-she's caught between terror and desperate, impossible hope. Is grief making her see connections that aren't there? Or is something supernatural happening? Because Lucas's heartbeat-when she rests her head on his chest-sounds exactly like Daniel's.
The truth, when it comes, is more devastating than either of them imagined. Now Maya must make an impossible choice: hate the man who lives because Daniel died, or love the man whose heart still beats for her.
Lucas Hartwell was a man carved from ice-ruthless CEO, feared employer, a billionaire who built his empire on cold logic and merciless decisions. But a failing heart forced him to accept a transplant that saved his life and shattered everything he thought he knew about himself. Now Lucas feels things that aren't his. He wakes with paint under his fingernails from dreams of creating art he's never studied.
He craves street food he's despised. He hums melodies he's never heard. And when he meets Maya Chen-a struggling artist with haunted eyes and a smile that breaks his heart-every cell in his body recognizes her. His borrowed heart races. His hands know exactly how to touch her. And he's consumed by an inexplicable, desperate need to protect her, provide for her, give her everything without her ever having to ask.
He pays her rent anonymously. Sends security to guard her. Replaces her broken art supplies with professional equipment. Arranges her dream job with a salary that changes her life. He can't explain the compulsion-it's as essential as breathing, as natural as his heartbeat. But there's something more: he knows things about her he shouldn't. Her coffee order. Her favorite poem. The exact way she likes to be held when she cries.
Maya is drowning in grief six months after losing Daniel Park-the love of her life, her soulmate, the man who worked three jobs trying to give her the world despite their poverty. Then her mysterious new boss, the infamous Lucas Hartwell, does something that stops her heart: he quotes Daniel's favorite poem. In Daniel's exact voice. With Daniel's gestures. And when Lucas touches her, it feels like coming home to a love she thought she'd lost forever.
As Lucas unconsciously mirrors Daniel's habits-tapping his pen three times, saying "Promise you'll be happy" in goodbye, knowing intimate details of Maya's past he couldn't possibly know-she's caught between terror and desperate, impossible hope. Is grief making her see connections that aren't there? Or is something supernatural happening? Because Lucas's heartbeat-when she rests her head on his chest-sounds exactly like Daniel's.
The truth, when it comes, is more devastating than either of them imagined. Now Maya must make an impossible choice: hate the man who lives because Daniel died, or love the man whose heart still beats for her.