In a city built on ambition and broken dreams, one abandoned church becomes the canvas for redemption, art, and a love neither of them saw coming.
Emily Summers knows how to curate other people's pain-she's made a career of it. As a sought-after gallery director in Manhattan, she hides her own shattered past behind stark walls and brilliant exhibitions. But when her emotionally raw curation catches the eye of a reclusive architect with a reputation as enigmatic as his designs, she's drawn into a creative collision that will challenge everything she thought she knew about vulnerability and connection.
Mark Hayes has been rebuilding from betrayal-quietly, deliberately, with blueprints that never include the risk of falling again. But when a forgotten church lands in his hands and the gallery director with stormy eyes and guarded fire steps into the project, Mark finds himself tempted by more than architectural ambition.
What begins as a professional collaboration slowly deepens into something more-a relationship forged not through perfection, but through the beauty of imperfection. Together, Emily and Mark resurrect a sacred space, pouring fragments of their own emotional histories into the walls, the art, and the air.
But when a powerful donor threatens to derail the project, when family secrets resurface, and when public attention turns intimate truths into tabloid fodder, they must choose whether to retreat back into the walls they've each built-or risk everything for a love that refuses to be framed, silenced, or compromised.
Urban Heartbeats
is a slow-burn, emotionally immersive romance for readers who believe in the healing power of art, the quiet strength of second chances, and the kind of love that doesn't arrive clean-but arrives exactly when it's needed.
Perfect for fans of introspective love stories, artistic settings, and emotionally rich characters learning to trust again. If you believe that love isn't always loud-but it always leaves a mark-this is the story for you.