Heart the Lover by Lily King

Kepler’s
Fiction. 256 pages. Hardcover. 2025. Instant New York Times Bestseller. Kirkus Best Books of 2025, along with NYT, NPR, WaPo and 10 others.
Decades after a passionate college love triangle, a successful writer must confront a life-altering secret from her youth.
“A master of sexual tension” — NYT Book Review.
“so steeped in sorrow and so filled with hope” — Washington Post.

From the publisher: From the award-winning author of Euphoria comes a deeply felt novel about love, memory, and the secrets that shape our lives. At the center of the story is a woman who, years after a formative and passionate relationship in college, believes she has moved beyond the defining drama of her youth. Now an accomplished writer with a carefully constructed life, she is nevertheless drawn back into the emotional landscape of that time when an unexpected revelation forces her to reconsider what really happened—and what it meant.

As the past resurfaces, long-buried desires, regrets, and loyalties come into focus. Lily King explores the complicated bonds between friends and lovers, the stories we tell ourselves about our choices, and the ways that art and memory intertwine. Heart the Lover is a luminous and emotionally precise novel about how love shapes us across decades and how confronting the truth can transform the way we understand our lives.

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