Heart of Salt: A Holy Love Emotional Karmic Healing Romance (Heart 1)

Fiona McKenzie—once a woman who carried her trauma like a second skin—fled Scotland in search of silence, leaving behind the weight of buried pain and the name that never truly fit. She arrives on a quiet Dalmatian island, hoping for peace, never expecting to be seen.
Ela Novak is a silver-haired doctor and rancher who has spent decades building walls around her heart—gruff, solitary, fiercely devoted to her animals and the land that saved her from her own ghosts.
Their first meeting is electric: a single brush of thoughts, a shared whisper in Gaelic neither expected, and suddenly they are no longer strangers. They don’t need words to understand one another. One touch of hands, and memories bleed through. One glance, and old wounds begin to soften. One kiss beneath the Dalmatian stars, and the barriers they’ve carried for lifetimes start to crumble.
But love here is not gentle.
It is salted—like tears, like the sea, like scars that still sting.
Fiona (now Rose) and Ela must decide whether to hide behind safety or surrender to a connection that can heal them both… or break them open completely.
Heart of Salt is a tender, deeply emotional sapphic romance about two women rediscovering life, trust, and the courage to be truly seen.
A telepathic connection that feels like coming home. Healing after trauma that happens in quiet moments. Slow mornings on a ranch. Moonlit confessions. And the silent miracle of finding someone who finally understands.
If you crave slow-burn love that simmers with every glance, where every touch carries the weight of years, and two wounded hearts learn to beat together again—this book is for you.
Welcome to the Heart series by V. Dalmatina — a Holy Love collection of sapphic, non-toxic, healing HEA romances.