Backpack Hearts

About Backpack Hearts

One backpack. One broken heart. One summer across Europe to find what she lost — and someone she never expected to meet. But when love knocks twice, will she open the door or run again?

Twenty-one-year-old Anna escapes Lviv with nothing but a rail pass, a battered journal, and the weight of a betrayal she can’t forget. Determined to rebuild herself, she drifts through Kraków, Berlin, Paris, Antwerp, Lyon, Marseille, and Venice, chasing hostels, street food, and the hope that a fresh city can silence old regrets.

In Antwerp she collides –literally–with Luc de Witte, a quiet Belgian photographer who brews black coffee stronger than his resolve to stay single. Their first kiss on a riverbank feels like a promise, yet Anna knows love is the one souvenir she can’t afford to pack.

But Europe has a way of folding distance, and fate keeps stamping their passports with chance meetings: a rain-soaked flea market in Paris, a moonlit ferry to Lyon, a Venetian alley where stolen journals resurface. Each encounter drags Anna closer to the truth she’s been running from-and to the man who makes her want to stop.

If the past catches up in Antwerp, can two runaway hearts find the courage to stay?

*Contemporary European road-trip romance packed with hostel bunkbeds, overnight buses, and lost journal entries.
*Eastern-European dark romance meets international love story new adult flair-perfect for fans of slow-burn angst.
*First-kiss riverbank romance that turns into a found-family travel love story.
*A backpacking new adult romance threaded with trauma, redemption, and second chances.

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Author Bio:
Mary Murr crafts emotionally charged contemporary and dark romances that delve into the hidden scars people carry—and the transformative power of unexpected love. Drawing inspiration from real-life resilience and the raw complexities of human connection, her stories pulse with depth, vulnerability, and healing. With a Ukrainian heart and a U.S. work ethic, Mary has lived in Canada and now calls Vienna home. When she’s not writing, you’ll likely find her wandering old bookstores, discovering Viennese neighborhoods, sipping black coffee, or getting lost in love stories.