For Ages
12 to 99

A romance that takes an unflinching look at not only the realities of heart failure, but at memory, grief, guilt, and what it means to live—in a "poignant yet funny" (Booklist) read that's "alternately heart-wrenching and heartwarming" (Kirkus)--from the award-winning author of The Words We Keep

What if the heart that saved your life also held the secrets of another's?

* "With its perfect blend of chronic illness representation, mental health exploration, and romance, this is…

An Excerpt fromEvery Borrowed Beat

CHAPTER ONE

“I should have died.

I was supposed to die.

Except I didn’t--someone else did.

And now I’m living on borrowed time with a borrowed heart just thump-thump-thumping away.

The problem with all this borrowing?

You begin to forget what part of you is actually, well, you.”

The video freezes on a particularly unattractive expression where I look like I’m about to sneeze or fart or, horror of horrors, simultaneously do both. If I were going to post this, I’d definitely need to pick a less humiliating final frame.

But I’m not going to post this video. I knew that before I even hit record.

An incoming call lights up my phone. Before I answer, I save the video to my drafts folder with all my other unposted clips, sixteen weeks’ worth of me rambling about my new so-called life.

When I hit accept, Chloe’s face fills the screen.

“You do it yet?” She jumps right in like we were already mid-conversation. Chloe’s never beaten around a bush in her life. I guess that’s…

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