When We Stopped Running: Two teenagers fall, break, and must learn to fix themselves before they can fix each other.

By Sajeev Krishnan

When We Stopped Running
Two teenagers. One fragile beginning. And a truth that could break the only thing they weren't ready to lose-each other.
Aarav never expected to start over again. With a sketchbook full of secrets and a heart still healing, he enters Greenwood High hoping only to survive the noise, the eyes, the loneliness.
Then he meets Maya-fearless, funny, bright like a sudden sunrise. She sees what others don't. He sees what she hides.
And just like that, two lives begin to quietly-and beautifully-intertwine.
But things get complicated when Rehan, Maya's charismatic childhood friend, returns and shakes the ground beneath them. Jealousy. Distance. Misunderstandings. A breakup that wasn't spoken aloud but felt deeply.
Just as Aarav and Maya begin to rebuild what they broke, life throws them the one thing they aren't ready for:
Aarav might have to move again.
And this time, the truth could decide everything.
Caught between fear and longing, hope and heartbreak, Maya and Aarav must learn what it really means to choose-
Honesty over hiding.
Healing over running.
And each other... even when the world tries to pull them apart.
A tender, emotional, slow-burning YA romance about first love, trust, mistakes, and the courage to stay.
For readers who loved Five Feet Apart, Everything Everything, and It Ends With Us

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G3C35ZJ4
• ISBN13: 9798275250565
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"