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What the Heart Wants
A Novel by Caren Cross

Lindsay Golan is twenty-three, brilliant, and just beginning the career she's worked her entire life to earn. As a rising intern at one of Boston's most prestigious hospitals, she knows the rules—stay focused, stay professional, and never blur the line between ambition and emotion.

Then she meets Dr. Joel Stein.

Respected. Powerful. Married.

What begins as a moment of attention quickly turns into something far more dangerous. Joel makes Lindsay feel seen in a way she has never experienced before, and against every warning, every instinct, and every voice of reason in her life, she leans in instead of pulling away.

But Lindsay isn't the first.

When Joel's wife, Roberta, invites Lindsay to coffee, the message is clear—this has happened before, and it never ends well. What Lindsay doesn't yet understand is just how far Roberta will go to protect her life, her marriage, and the order she has maintained for decades.

As past and present begin to collide, a chilling pattern emerges—one that ties Lindsay to a series of women who all made the same mistake.

They fell in love with the same man.

And they paid for it.

Now, as the truth begins to surface and the line between love and survival disappears, Lindsay must confront a terrifying question:

Is she the next in the sequence…

Or is she something else entirely?

What the Heart Wants is a gripping psychological drama about obsession, power, and the dangerous lie we tell ourselves—that love will protect us from consequence.

Because sometimes…

the heart doesn't just want.

It takes.