Almost Breathing — Barbara Morgenroth

Wildly creative and intensely vulnerable, filmmaker Jemima Blume has been almost breathing for most of her life. Then Jem falls in love with Dr. Jay Gold. Jay finds Jem incomprehensible, compelling, desirable and provoking. She makes him question everything. Jay doesn't trust her. When he's with Jem, Jay doesn't even trust himself.
When a kind of madness takes over the town, Jay has to decide whether to bind his future to Jem or return to his own life of almost breathing.