Now Available · Teneritas, 2026
The Quiet
Majority
Why Congenital Heart Disease
Deserves to Be Seen
One in every one hundred children is born with a heart that works differently. They are not a rare footnote. They are the quiet majority.
About the Book
A book that names what has long gone unspoken
Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect in the world. And yet most people have never heard of it. The Quiet Majority is an attempt to change that.
Written by Adrian Adair, founder of Heartbeat Forward, this book tells the full story of CHD with compassion, clarity, and an unflinching commitment to honesty. Through composite portraits drawn from real CHD experiences, it traces the lives of patients, parents, siblings, and caregivers as they navigate a condition that touches every corner of family life.
This is not a medical textbook. It is a human document. Each chapter is an act of witness — an acknowledgment that the families living alongside CHD have carried something enormous, often in silence, without language, without support, and without the recognition their love deserves.
Proceeds from every purchase support the mission of Heartbeat Forward: care packages to children in cardiac units, CHD awareness, and funding toward heart surgeries for children in need.
1 in 100
children born with congenital heart disease
40,000+
babies born with CHD in the U.S. each year
15 ch.
across every stage of the CHD journey
100%
of author royalties directed to Heartbeat Forward programs
Inside the Book
A glimpse at the journey
Part One
The Diagnosis
The moment the world reorients. What parents hear, what they don't, and what they carry home.
Part Two
The Waiting Room
Surgery days. The particular silence of a hospital hallway. The impossible work of hoping.
Part Three
The Siblings
The ones who are loved, but must sometimes wait. How CHD reshapes an entire family.
Part Four
The Medical Community
A letter to the cardiologists, nurses, and surgeons who give their lives to these small hearts.
Part Five
Growing Up Different
The child who grows into the teenager who grows into the adult, carrying a scar and a story.
Closing
What Comes Next
A call to the reader. What awareness without action costs. What each of us can do.
Every copy matters.
Every heart counts.
When you purchase The Quiet Majority, you are not just reading a book. You are telling a child in a cardiac unit that their life is worth knowing about.