Heartbeat

We kissed once.In high school, I kissed my best friend Clara. I was prepared to confess my love for her and make her mine, but a sudden tragedy derailed my whole life.After that, I went back to being her friend Dax-nothing more, nothing less.When she married someone else, I thought I'd lost my chance forever. I threw myself into my work as a cardiologist. It kept me so busy I could barely think of anything outside the sterile walls of the clinic. My patients were all I needed? or so I thought.After the devastating loss of her husband, Clara and her son move back to this small town. The more time we spend together, the more I realize how empty my life is.Every day with them, the hammering hope in my chest grows stronger. I begin to think Clara will finally see me the way I've always seen her.My heart has always beat for Clara. When she learns the truth about my feelings, will her healing heart beat for me too?Heartbeat is an emotional, friends to lovers, contemporary romance written in K. Bromberg's Everyday Heroes World.