They were perfectly healthy until love made them reckless with the truth. Earl Shalom Meran spends his life quietly loving Czedy Ira Melendez, convinced he will never be brave enough to confess. When a medical mistake convinces him that Czedy is dying just like every woman in her cursed family before her Earl chooses silence and devotes himself to giving her a beautiful ending. But fate has its own cruel sense of humor. The diagnosis was wrong, the curse was broken, and love arrived too late to stop the damage. As one truth corrects itself, another turns fatal. In a story where illness is mistaken, love is delayed, and death waits patiently, Earl and Czedy learn that sometimes, it isn't sickness that destroys you, it's loving too deeply, too quietly, and too late.