The Last One
by H. Pearce
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Pub Date Jun 13 2025 | Archive Date Jun 26 2025
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Description
When rising journalist Daisy Jenkins sits down to interview Logan Blake, a brilliant, Cambridge-educated neuroscientist on a mission to redefine men’s mental health, she expects a compelling story. What she doesn’t expect is the spark that ignites between them, or how deeply entangled their lives will become.
From London to Sicily, through years filled with ambition, reinvention and heartbreak, Daisy and Logan circle each other in a delicate dance of missed chances and unspoken feelings. But when tragedy strikes, drawing them both to New York, fate converges in a single, devastating moment that forces Daisy to confront a truth that has quietly shaped their lives from the very beginning.
A Note From the Publisher
Becoming an author has been a lifelong dream of mine. Like many writers, I spent years imagining what it would be like to hold a book in my hands that had my name on the cover. However, it wasn’t until my thirties that I finally took the leap. After earning a BA in Creative Writing and Psychology, with a minor in English, I committed fully to my passion and began writing seriously. Since then, I’ve been fortunate enough to publish nearly a dozen novellas and two full-length novels.
In addition to writing, I work as a teacher, which has given me the privilege of working with students from a wide range of neurodiverse backgrounds. That experience has deeply influenced the way I approach storytelling. I wanted to create accessible, engaging short-reads for individuals who love to read but may find it difficult to get through longer, denser books. Whether due to attention challenges, time constraints, or simply a preference for shorter narratives, I believe everyone deserves stories that are enjoyable, meaningful, and easy to digest.
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781991173362 |
PRICE | $5.00 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews

What a beautiful story! Daisy and Logan really captivated me from the very beginning and I was so eager to find out exactly how their story would play out from their first meeting on and I was not disappointed. This book kept me turning the pages on the edge of my seat late into the night. I highly recommend it if you are looking for a beautiful love story different from its predecessors that really makes you believe true love exists:

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC.
Wow what an absolute tearjerker of a ride. Thought I would start this short story with a cuppa this morning. Literally could not put it down and read it within an hour and half.
A story about soulmates that come together with missed chances and unspoken feelings.
Top stars for me, absolutely loved the style of writing and I’m checking out what else this author has written.

Thank you for allowing me to reach such a beautiful story. It’s a heartfelt story about two people whose seemingly ill-timed, recurring encounters turned out to be exactly what they needed at that point in their lives. I could not put this book down. I absolutely love the writing style. I loved everything about this book.

On the surface it looks like a story of missed opportunities, a man and woman attracted to each other but circumstances never being right for a relationship to develop. But it' s far more than that. Daisy marries a man somewhat impulsively and finds out he has sustained devastating injuries in an IED attack. The story becomes one of duty: a woman's need to pick up the pieces, no matter the cost to her. From the initial premise of a superficial meet cute that never goes anywhere,, The Last One delivers a powerful punch and stayed with me.

Thanks to NetGalley and Victory Editing for this ARC of this novel that publishes on June 13, 2025.
The Last One by H. Pearce follows the story of Daisy Jenkins, a journalist who, in the course of her work, crosses paths with Logan Blake, a prestigious neuroscientist dedicated to researching men's mental health. What begins as an interview soon becomes something much more significant in her life.
Although this story is short in length, you can perceive the depth of its characters, and I must say it was unexpectedly introspective in the best possible way. Additionally, I loved the writing style.
It was very easy to get hooked and not want to stop reading. I often found myself deeply connected to Daisy and Logan's thoughts. By the way, they are both very similar and very stubborn—so much so that they remind me of myself.
The spark that began to emerge from their encounters was incredibly perceptible to me as a reader, but over time, it became something very different for both of them.
Even so, I loved watching them interact and how they brought out so many aspects of each other's personalities.
However, it soon turned into many missed opportunities, into something "unspoken but undeniable." Each of them made decisions so far removed from who they were that the story suddenly took a completely different direction.
Now I had to see them in a more independent light. On one hand, it hurt to see how the situation affected Logan, and on the other, I began to recognize Daisy's new reality and the difficult position she now had to take charge of.
Daisy found herself stuck between decisions and truths that her heart may have already resolved, but her mind had not. I certainly couldn't imagine myself in a situation like that, or whether I could do anything differently. Daisy is a very strong woman for that reason.
When the words were finally spoken, it ended up being a very hard blow that somehow also turned out to be something very meaningful.
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