LOVE SEIZED

Book Description

A haunting exploration of love, loss, and the journey back to self-worth

Daniel Carter thinks he knows what love looks like. It's grand gestures and expensive gifts. It's changing yourself to become worthy of someone who seems just out of reach. It's giving everything you have and calling it romance.

When he meets Sophia Reyes at an upscale gallery opening, their connection feels like destiny. She's sophisticated, passionate about art, and sees the world through eyes that make everything appear more beautiful. Their whirlwind romance unfolds like a fairy tale—European vacations, intimate dinners, dreams shared over morning coffee. Daniel has never been happier, never felt more alive.

But fairy tales have a way of revealing their true nature.

As Daniel's business grows and his devotion deepens, Sophia begins to drift away like smoke through his fingers. Her responses become shorter, her smiles more obligatory, her presence more distant. Desperate to reclaim what they once had, Daniel pours more of himself into the relationship—more money, more attention, more of his very soul. He transforms himself into the man he thinks she wants, believing that if he just gives enough, loves enough, sacrifices enough, she'll return to him.

Instead, he watches helplessly as love becomes obsession, devotion becomes desperation, and the man he once was disappears entirely.

Love Seized is a raw, unflinching examination of what happens when we mistake our worth for what we can provide others. Through Daniel's journey from blissful romance to devastating heartbreak to hard-won self-discovery, Dr. Naim Tahir Baig crafts a story that will resonate with anyone who has ever loved someone who couldn't love them back.

This is not a story about getting the girl. This is a story about getting yourself back.

With prose that cuts deep and characters that feel startlingly real, Love Seized explores the fine line between love and obsession, the difference between healthy devotion and codependency, and the radical act of learning to value yourself when someone you love doesn't value you at all.

Perfect for readers who believes that sometimes the most important love story is the one you write with yourself.