Stolen Heartbeats

Léonie is twenty-three, with shadows under her eyes she's stopped trying to hide and a secret that has been eating her alive for twenty months. When she pushes open the door of a café in a forgotten village in the south of France, all she wants is to disappear. Far from Lyon. Far from the man who broke her for three years. Far from the night everything shattered — a car crash, a friend dead, an innocent man in prison because of her lie. Théo, the owner of L'Onde Bleue, doesn't ask questions. He brews coffee, mends what can be mended, and carries his own scars in silence. But when he discovers that Léonie is tied to the lie that sent his brother behind bars, the refuge becomes a trap — and the pull between them, another betrayal. She lied to survive. He paid the price for her silence. Now Léonie must choose: stay quiet to protect herself, or break her silence to save the man she destroyed — even if the truth costs her the man she's come to love.