Description of book
Book Description
Between Deadlines and Heartbeats is a slow-burn campus romance set in a Nigerian university, where two emotionally grounded students find themselves drawn into something neither of them planned—and neither can fully explain.
Zainab is disciplined, analytical, and controlled by structure. Mek is observant, calm, and unsettlingly consistent in a way that challenges her sense of order. What begins as ordinary academic proximity slowly evolves into something deeper, quieter, and harder to define.
As their paths keep crossing, what should have remained simple interaction turns into a continuous emotional current—one built on awareness, restraint, and unspoken tension. In a world filled with noise, deadlines, and expectations, their connection grows in the silence between words.
This is not a story of instant love. It is a story of repetition, resistance, and the slow realization that some connections don’t ask for permission to exist—they continued
