the Weight of A Given Heart: Forbidden Fantasy Romance Glass, Magic, and Hearts We Give Away

A feeling given cannot be returned to its maker. That is the first rule of the trade, and Mirela Vane has built her whole life around never breaking it.In the guild city of Corvath, glassmakers like Mirela don't just shape vessels - they seal grief, rage, and love itself into glass, breath by breath, for the wealthy to keep at arm's length from their own hearts. It is careful, exacting, survivable work, as long as no one ever asks for more than the rules allow.Anton Kessler asks for more. A thief with nothing to his name but scarred hands and a debt he didn't choose, he needs a vessel no glassmaker has dared make in forty years - one built to hold a whole heart, not just a piece of it. Mirela knows exactly how that story ends; she's spent her career making sure it never starts again in her workshop.But the men circling Anton's debt want more than a vessel. They want the technique, the heart, and the man - and they are not interested in what the rules allow. As Mirela and Anton are pulled closer by the very magic that should keep them apart, she has to face the question she sealed away years before her workshop: whether a woman who has spent her life refusing to feel can survive choosing to, on purpose, with everything to lose.Because Anton has never once been chosen by anything. And Mirela has never once let herself be.What they lost and what they might get back may not be the same thing.