Three Beats of the Heart

Evan Blake has already lost one person he loved. He refuses to lose his daughter too.When widowed single father Evan Blake watches his seven-year-old daughter, Maddie, suddenly collapse and land in the pediatric intensive care unit, every fear he thought he had learned to live with comes rushing back. Grief has already taught him how quickly a family can change. Now he will do anything to keep Maddie safe.Callie knows how to stay calm when everything around her is falling apart. As a pediatric intensive care nurse, she has spent years caring for frightened children and the families who love them. She has also learned that caring too deeply comes with a cost.But Maddie is difficult to forget, and so is the fiercely devoted father who never leaves her side.What begins during the worst night of Evan's life should end when Maddie leaves the hospital. Instead, Evan and Callie's paths cross again, and the connection they tried to leave behind follows them into ordinary life.Their slow-burn attraction grows into something neither of them expected. For Evan, falling in love means risking another devastating loss. For Callie, it means deciding whether protecting her heart has become another way of avoiding the life she wants.As grief, healing, parenthood, and the fear of another goodbye pull them in opposite directions, Evan and Callie must decide whether they are willing to take a second chance on love, and whether three wounded hearts can become something neither expected to find again.Three hearts. One family. One chance to choose hope.Three Beats of the Heart is an emotional contemporary romance about a widowed single father, a compassionate pediatric nurse, second chances, healing after loss, slow-burn love, and the unexpected family we choose.