How To Buy A Heart: When I Gave You Mine For Free... Paperback – February 14, 2026

Dear Heart Lockets,How To Buy A Heart is a story of infinite love. Not love as fantasy or promise, but love as something that persists even when it is mishandled, misunderstood, or left unanswered. It completes a trilogy that has followed intimacy through desire, devotion, fracture, and reckoning.The book opens with They’ll Never September Me: A Love Story, a prologue that resists delay and disposability. From there, the narrative moves through a relationship marked by uneven presence, broken assurances, and emotional labor carried by one person for far too long. The work traces how love expands beyond its container, how it survives neglect, and how it begins to change shape when it is no longer reciprocated.Rather than telling a single linear story, How To Buy A Heart unfolds through moments. Conversations that never arrived. Promises made casually and broken quietly. Gaps in memory that reveal how dark certain seasons became. The book pays close attention to patterns, especially the kind that repeat until they are named. It asks what happens when love is given consistently but received conditionally, and what it costs to keep believing anyway.At the center of the work is the tension between infinite love and finite care. Love does not disappear when someone fails to show up. It stretches. It waits. It absorbs. Over time, that endurance becomes its own burden. The book documents the slow shift from longing to awareness, from hope to discernment, without rushing toward forgiveness or closure.The final section, The Last Lover Boy Alive, brings the trilogy to rest. Not with reconciliation, but with recognition. Love is no longer something to chase or translate. It is something understood clearly, without distortion. What remains is not bitterness, but authorship. The ability to name what was real, what was harmful, and what will never be repeated.How To Buy A Heart is not a guide to loving correctly. It is a record of loving fully. Read more