There are many kinds of love:
The kind that shouts from rooftops.
The kind that floods timelines with selfies and rings.
And then, there is the kind that happens quietly. The kind that blooms between two breaths, two blinks, two beats.

This book is an ode to the third kind.

"I Met You Between Heartbeats" is a love story set across the tender landscapes of South India and Bangladesh — not in geography alone, but in mood, in memory, in manner. Inspired by the lyrical sadness of Bangladeshi love poems and the earthy romance of Malayalam and Tamil literature, this story explores what happens when love chooses silence over spectacle.

Each chapter is a heartbeat.
Each silence, a paragraph.
And every goodbye, a promise waiting to return.

If you've ever loved quietly, if you've ever felt someone's presence long after they've left — then this story is yours. Between the turning of these pages, I hope you find your own echoes.

Welcome to the space between heartbeats.

— Fazal Abubakkar Esaf