Breathless: Borrowed Air: Before Every Breath Had a Price

By Ian O'Dowd

Before every breath had a price, one life taught Elara Vey how much breathing could cost.

On her first day at the Meridian Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Elara expects difficult classes, impossible deadlines and a room she can quietly disappear into.

She does not expect Isla Quinn.

Brilliant, irreverent and living with a severe inherited lung condition, Isla refuses to let illness define what remains of her life. Their unlikely friendship soon draws Elara towards Damien Quinn-Isla's fiercely protective brother-and towards a problem medicine has never been able to solve.

When Isla's condition begins to deteriorate, Elara develops an experimental breathing-support system designed to recognise the body's need for air before the patient must fight for it.

It works.

Until it doesn't.

As hope gives way to desperation, Elara and Damien must decide how far they are willing to go-and what they are prepared to risk-for one more breath.

Breathless: Borrowed Air is the official graphic prequel to the Breathless trilogy: a story of friendship, ambition and loss that reveals the tragedy behind Elara's lifelong pursuit-and the first quiet divide between two people who would one day change the value of human life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDJMNSMT
• ISBN13: 9798191387383
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"