Without Leaving You Behind: A Dark Hearts Novella
Michael James
A Care Bears backpack, a shared bag of chips, late nights in marching band, and a church built by family to welcome them as they were. What began as friendship became laughter, loyalty, and a love they swore would last forever.
And for a while, it did. Rings, vows, mornings tangled together—it was real, and it was theirs.
But forever isn’t always long enough. Now Caleb dreams in fragments, clinging to the memory of a love that shaped his entire life.
Tender, haunting, and unforgettable, Without Leaving You Behind is a tragic a celebration of first love, a reckoning with loss, and a reminder that some stories stay with us long after the last page.
A Dark Hearts Novella.

