When you love someone, their gaze feels like an inferno, their arms like home and their smile like a devastation you are willing to bask in. But what happens when you love someone unconditionally and their brain ceases to process your face, their memory fails to recall your eyes? How do you love someone who has forgotten what love feels like and everything it stands for?
The world has seen Romeo and Juliet, Adam and Eve, but never before has it seen a love like that of Samay and Dhriti. Their journey, as wild as a tempest in the deepest of seas, their hearts like pearls found enclosed in clasped oysters, their love like the first ray of light at the horizon, the first beam of warmth at the crack of dawn, illuminating the dark waters.
Together from the very beginning, their love only blossomed with time, but it is put to test when Samay is diagnosed with Alzheimers at 80. When his memory of Dhriti, and their love begins to fade, what will Dhriti do to keep their love alive? Will it be restored, or lost forever?
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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