HEARTBEATS IN TIMES SQUARE

HEARTBEATS IN TIMES SQUARE<BR>A Novel<BR>She stepped away from an eleven-billion-dollar fund to save her own name.<BR>He walked out of an eleven-year marriage to finally live in his.<BR>Hana Seo-jin has spent her whole career being the person who fixes things - the niece who proved she belonged, the CFO who never let a number get away from her. Then a colleague's quiet fraud lands on her desk with her own signature already on it, and the only way to protect the truth is to walk away from everything she built to prove she deserved it.<BR>Joshua Hartwell teaches teenagers about opportunity cost for a living. He's less sure of his own - not until a rainy night in a Times Square café, and a woman who sits down across from him without needing to know who he used to be.<BR>What starts as forty minutes of honesty neither of them planned for becomes something neither can walk away from: a scandal that threatens to define her, a divorce that's already redefining him, and a slow-burn choice between the noise everyone else is chasing and the one person who makes the quiet feel like enough.<BR>Heartbeats in Times Square is a story about what's left when the titles, the headlines, and the applause all fall away - and about choosing someone, on purpose, in the middle of the loudest city in the world.<BR>For readers who love: quiet-burn contemporary romance, workplace-adjacent stakes without the workplace drama, and love stories where the biggest risk isn't falling - it's staying honest.