The Art of Healing Hearts

Nurse Elara Vance knows that Valentine's Day is a lie. As a veteran ER nurse at a high-volume metropolitan hospital, she's seen the broken promises and shattered lives that land on her gurney every February 14th. Haunted by the death of her fiancé five years ago, she has built a wall of clinical detachment so thick that nothing can get through-until she starts finding the paper hearts.

Small, perfectly folded origami hearts begin appearing in the wake of the city's worst tragedies: tucked on...