Lost Heart of Paris

Sometimes the most dangerous place to fall in love is inside your own head.

Paris Laurent hasn't left her Manhattan apartment in years. A brilliant engineer with crippling agoraphobia, she's built a small, safe, contained life: her fighting fish, her work, and four walls that are equal parts sanctuary and cage.

Then Julian Sterling moves in next door, charming, chaotic, and infuriatingly good at seeing the woman behind the locked door.

To feel like someone worth knowing, Paris starts to write. And the story writes back. It pulls her into a shimmering island world and into the arms of Calician, a devastatingly beautiful man who asks only one thing of her: stay. Stop fighting. Sleep.

The more perfect his world becomes, the harder it is to remember why she should ever want to wake up.

To find her way home, Paris will have to choose between the man of her dreams and the man who inspired her to dream, before she loses the difference for good.

A wildly imaginative, darkly funny, and deeply hopeful romance for readers of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library and Ashley Poston's The Seven Year Slip.

A complete, standalone love story with a happily-ever-after. Book One of the Lost Heart of Paris trilogy.

Content note: contains agoraphobia, anxiety, grief, and a storyline involving medication and thoughts of giving up on life. Ultimately hopeful; please read with care.