SOME HEARTS BEAT TWICE

By Rohit Balaji

Some Hearts Beat Twice

What if the person who saves you is someone who was never supposed to stay?

Kevin isn't looking for another love story.

After losing the girl he once believed he'd spend his life with, he's lost more than a relationship. He's lost his confidence, his direction, and almost his love for music. All he has left is a guitar, a stubborn dream, and a best friend who refuses to let him give up.

Liya doesn't believe in second chances.

Sharp-tongued, fiercely independent, and impossible to read, she's built her life around one rule: never need anyone enough to lose them again. Behind her sarcasm and reckless choices is a grief she refuses to confront and a past she would rather keep buried.

Then Kevin meets her.

What begins with a chance encounter, stolen drinks, sarcastic conversations, and two people who couldn't be more different slowly becomes something neither of them expected.

And then there are the others.

A talented musician terrified of being seen.
Two friends caught between a safe life and the dream they've always wanted.
And Harry-the walking disaster who somehow becomes the glue holding them all together.

Together, they form a band.

What starts as a desperate attempt to find direction becomes something bigger: a dream, a friendship, and a family.

But perhaps that's what life is really about.

There is always a part of us we haven't discovered yet-a part that remains unexplored until we meet the person who brings it out of us.

Sometimes, the right person doesn't complete you.

They introduce you to a version of yourself you never knew existed.

And when two people begin exploring those hidden parts of themselves together, they may discover that their lives can lead somewhere neither of them could have reached alone.

For Kevin and Liya, that journey comes with laughter, music, grief, fear, and a love neither of them planned for.

Kevin must learn that loving someone doesn't mean fixing them.

Liya must learn that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting the person she lost.

And both of them must face the question neither is ready to answer:

Can you love again when your heart still remembers what it felt like to lose?

Some Hearts Beat Twice is an emotional, funny, and heartfelt story about love, second chances, grief, friendship, music, found family, self-discovery, and the people who help us discover the life we were capable of living all along.

For anyone who has ever lost someone, lost themselves, or wondered whether their heart could ever feel whole again-

maybe it can.

Maybe some hearts are meant to beat twice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHWX2STD
• ISBN13: 9798170796311
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"