Hearts Out Of Sync

In a world that moves forward one calendar page at a time, the Morgan family lives under the same roof—but in different emotional years. Thirty-two-year-old Aaron Morgan has always been the quiet glue of his family. Empathetic, gentle, and selfless, he senses something no one else notices: though his family eats dinner together, laughs at the same table, and shares the same address, their hearts are years apart—frozen in moments of pain they never healed from. His father, Daniel, still lives in 1998, the year he lost his job and his dignity. His mother, Grace, is stuck in 2003, the year her daughter walked out after a painful fight. His sister, Emily, never moved past 2010, when her marriage collapsed in silence. His brother, Ethan, hasn't emotionally left 2015, when a betrayal shattered his trust. Aaron is the only one living in the present—and he decides he can't let another year go by with everyone emotionally drifting apart. So he makes a silent promise: Before the next New Year's Eve… he will fix all their calendars and bring his family back to the same today. With small acts of love, quiet sacrifices, and hidden missions to heal each heart, Aaron begins stitching their timelines back together—without ever taking credit. But healing everyone else comes with a price. The more he gives, the more his own emotional clock begins to break. And when the family finally discovers the truth behind his sudden exhaustion and fading light—it will tear them apart and pull them together in the same breath. Hearts Out of Sync is a tender, soul-warming, and heartbreaking novel about unspoken wounds, the weight of invisible love, and the one person in every family who silently carries everyone's emotional burdens. A story for anyone who has ever wished they could fix the past for someone they love.