Still Beating

Jennifer Hartmann

Cora and her longtime rival Dean—her sister's fiancé—are abducted together and chained in a stranger's basement, forced to rely on each other to survive. Their ordeal reshapes fifteen years of animosity into something far more complicated, and the story follows both the harrowing captivity and the messy, painful process of healing once they're free. Told from both Cora's and Dean's perspectives, it's a dark, trauma-driven romance about how shared suffering can blur the line between hatred and love.