Heartsound by Clare Stevens

Description

Sixteen-year-old Chrissie’s first love is a girl.  But it’s the eighties, and she fears rejection from  her rural community, so her relationship remains  secret and when her friend vanishes, Chrissie bears her  heartache alone.  Decades later, her long-lost love resurfaces, but all is not as it seems. It takes a global pandemic and a brush with death to spark the resolution Chrissie craves.
This is a tale of unspoken truths, broken promises, almost-forgotten dreams, and hope.  402pp