The Secret Gravity: We Kept Our Distance Until the World Tilted (The Quiet Hearts #1)

We kept our distance—until the world tilted.

They meet where they shouldn’ at a community fundraiser, hands brushing over a box of programs, a spark neither of them will admit. She’s the steady one—teacher, loyal friend, builder of everyone else’s safety net. He’s the guy who does the right thing even when it costs him. There’s only one rule between don’t make trouble.

But trouble doesn’t ask permission. A scandal, a separation, and the slow collapse of a marriage push them into the same orbit again. What follows isn’t a fling—it’s the hardest thing either of them has ever fall in love without breaking themselves to fit. In stolen conversations and ordinary kindnesses, they learn the beautiful, boring miracle of restraint—choosing daylight over drama, boundaries over shortcuts, and a future they can live with in the sun.

The Secret Gravity is a grown-up, slow-burn contemporary romance about consequence and courage. The heat lives in what they won’t risk—until it’s finally safe to want everything.

Trope forbidden pull • friends-to-lovers energy • moral tension • small-town/community care realistic, emotionally intelligent, hopeful closed-door to low open-door; high romantic tension no cheating on-page, HEA, no cliffhanger Standalone in the Quiet Hearts series with light cameos across books If you love romances that respect boundaries, simmer with chemistry, and reward patience with a breathtaking payoff, The Secret Gravity will pull you in and won’t let go.

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