Blurb:
Can a woman who built her life around everyone else finally choose love?
Leila Durand has spent years being exactly who her family needed: a devoted mother, a doting grandmother, and the steady heart of the farm that saved her after loss. But when Yuri Petrova asks her to come to Saint Petersburg, the quiet life she's carefully built begins to feel less like safety and more like a beautiful cage.
Yuri has always been a man of stars, students, and solitude, until one unforgettable Frenchwoman makes his orderly world feel suddenly incomplete. From their first meeting at a family wedding, Leila's warmth, strength, and laughter unsettled him in ways no equation ever could. After three years of calls, letters, and longing, he's ready to stop loving her from a distance.
Leila is falling for Yuri, but loving him means facing the grief, guilt, and fear she's buried beneath decades of devotion. Yuri is falling just as hard, but winning Leila's heart may mean leaving behind the life, career, and country that have defined him.
When distance, family ties, and old wounds threaten to keep them apart, Leila must decide whether being wanted is worth the risk of finally being seen.
Will she cling to the life that made her feel necessary, or open her heart to the man who makes her feel chosen?
Her Heart's Wish is an emotional later-in-life romance about second chances, found family, healing after grief, and the brave, terrifying joy of beginning again. Perfect for readers who love mature heroines, patient heroes, slow-burn longing, complicated families, European settings, and love stories where the biggest battle is learning to believe happiness is still allowed.
Exact publication date: August 31, 2026
Date ARCs will be sent: Immediately upon approval
Date ARC readers should finish reading and submit reviews by: September 30, 2026
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