Held By Midnight

🌙 Held by Midnight 🌙

🖋️ A Midnight-Laced Love Story by [Author Name]

📍 Setting: A seaside town in Devon — present day

💔 Genre: Contemporary Romance / Emotional Drama

🔥 Themes: Grief • Healing • Intimacy • The Power of Presence

🕯️ Sophie Lang

By day, Sophie runs a quiet candle shop tucked into a cobbled corner of the Devon coast. By night, she lies awake in a too-big bed, haunted by the pieces of a life she once planned—one that ended when her fiancé never came home from a climbing trip abroad.

Everyone in town thinks she’s healing.

She’s not.

She’s surviving.

Until him.

🥃 Cal Morgan

A night-shift paramedic with a broken past of his own, Cal doesn't sleep. He walks. He drinks black coffee. He listens to late-night vinyl and fixes up the crumbling lighthouse he inherited from an uncle he barely knew. He’s been passing by Sophie’s shop for months—but never stepped inside.

Until the night he sees her crying behind the counter long after closing.

🌌 Two Souls. One Hour. A Thousand Unspoken Things.

Drawn together in the stillness of midnight, their connection grows quietly—deliberately:

• 🌧️ Shared silences during coastal storms

• 📻 Old records played in dim rooms

• 🌿 Long walks through moonlit gardens where neither of them has to pretend

In the dark, they open up. In the dark, they’re safe.
But daylight always demands clarity—and eventually, choices.

💫 They were never looking for love. Only understanding.

🌙 But some hearts are only held together at midnight—until someone teaches them how to last in the light.

📖 Read the first chapter of Held by Midnight now at TheFirstChapter.shop

🔗 For readers who believe healing begins when the world is quiet enough to feel it.