Debut novel · First draft complete

Some of us fall.
Some of us learn to fly.

A novel about the stories we tell ourselves to survive — the locked doors, the careful days, the quiet in the house afterward — and what happens when the person who wrote the first chapter comes back.

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Fall or Fly by Heaven Harmon — cover
Traumawhere it begins
Griefwhat it costs
Healingthe slow work
Resiliencechoosing tomorrow
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Fall or Fly

Callie built a life with no surprises. Then her mother came home.

After the childhood she survived, Callie made herself a promise: nothing gets in unless she lets it. Every day is planned. Every door is locked. It isn't happiness, exactly, but it's safe — and safe has always been enough.

Until her estranged mother shows up on her doorstep with a story Callie has spent a decade refusing to hear. Now the carefully controlled life she built is cracking, and a slow-burning connection with Jace is asking her a question she's never let herself consider: what if choosing yourself means letting someone else in?

Contemporary fictionEmotionalSlow-burn romanceGrief & healingContent note: family abuse
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“If she wasn't going to choose herself, I had to choose me.”
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September 11 · 1 min read

Major Update!

The first draft of Fall or Fly is finished. Here's what happens next — and how you can be part of it.

July 4 · 6 min read

Meet the Characters

An introduction to Callie, Jace, and the people who shape the world of Fall or Fly.

June 30 · 1 min read

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Heaven Harmon
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Heaven Harmon

Heaven writes contemporary emotional fiction and romance that isn't afraid of the heavy, quiet spaces — grief, survival, and the slow work of healing. Her stories follow raw, stubborn characters through life's hardest storms toward the quiet courage it takes to choose tomorrow.

When she isn't buried in manuscript edits or dreaming up slow-burn connections like Callie and Jace, she's usually with her husband on the couch, wedged between their pets, Willow and Pepper.

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