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Sixty years after a CIA-backed coup tore her first love away in the streets of Tehran, Roya Archer has finally found the answers she spent a lifetime seeking. But as one story ends, another begins in the quiet, salt-aired town of her New England home. The Inkwell, the small stationery boutique Roya founded as a sanctuary for her past, is now a thriving historical trust. When her son, Kyle, discovers a splintered floorboard in the shop's attic, he unearths a bundle of unaddressed letters tied in faded Persian silk. These are not the letters Roya once exchanged with Bahman; they are the private, unposted confessions of Mr. Fakhri, the shopkeeper who once guarded their secrets. The letters speak of a "lost garden"-a botanical project Mr. Fakhri dreamed of creating to honor the love stories he saw bloom and wither in his shop. To find it, Roya and a young, idealistic botanist named Leo must piece together a map hidden in the margins of vintage poetry books. As the garden begins to bloom once more, Roya must decide if she is ready to let the ghosts of Tehran finally rest, or if the beauty of the past can be replanted in the soil of her future.