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Every Borrowed Beat

by Erin Stewart

Life after a heart transplant

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Life after a heart transplant

Seventeen-year-old Sydney’s transplant shifts the questions that have shaped her life: after years of waiting, she must reckon with survivor’s guilt and decide how to move forward. Her search for information about Mia, the likely donor, brings her into contact with Mia’s family and Clayton, Mia’s best friend. At the same time, tensions between Clayton and Mia’s brother Tanner remain unexplained, while Sydney’s long-distance friend Chloe faces worsening health. The story brings romance together with grief, illness, and the complicated ties between a recipient and a donor’s loved ones.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in YA romance with serious health themes.
  • Readers seeking fiction about heart transplantation, survivor’s guilt, and life after illness.
  • Readers interested in stories about donor families, friendship, and unresolved relationships.

Themes

Heart transplantation and survivor’s guiltGrief and lossRomance and friendshipLiving with serious illness

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Book overview

This emotional YA romance tackles heart failure, survivor's guilt, and the impossible question: how do you live fully when your life was saved by someone else's loss?

Sydney Wells should have died. She was supposed to die.

She never expected, after years of waiting, to receive a heart transplant. Now, seventeen-year-old Sydney doesn't know what to do with her life. Her daily routine consisted of staying indoors, eating heart-healthy foods, and posting about her transplant list experiences on TheWaitingList with her long-distance BFF (and heart failure buddy) Chloe.

Now, Sydney latches onto the one thing that gives her meaning: learning as much as she can about the person whose heart she inherited. After finding the family of her likely-donor, Mia, Sydney falls deep into her world--and may also be falling for Mia's best friend, Clayton.

But Sydney isn't the only one hiding something. Mia's brother Tanner won't talk to Clayton, and Clayton won't tell Sydney why. And hundreds of miles away, Chloe's health has taken a turn for the worse. Sydney needs to face what's in her heart--the truth, the guilt, and the future--before it's too late.
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