Leilani

Leilani had promised herself a long time ago never to fall in love. A cherry blossom design embedded in a silver brush was the only thing she had left of her mother. Her mother, a faceless lady in some parts of her brain which she has yet to recover from. She was diagnosed with dissociative amnesia when she was 10, losing accurately 10 years of memory. When she had woken up on that day, surrounded by a bunch of flowers, lying on a bed, the only thing she could remember were people's names yet no faces. Despite the vow, it only took a single bushfire and a long-forgotten dream to rekindle what she thought and hoped she would never recover. She soon found herself falling rather fast and madly for no other but Mikhail Alekseev.

After a death threat looms over her head, Leilani is forced to move to California, USA, where she lives under the supervision and protection of her brother. Little did she know she was about to tie the knot with an unexpected man.

Mikhail had lost hope in love when he'd lost both family and a friend. He'd lived a single life since then, his mornings usually filled with magnanimous joy, a swift scent of home-cooked burlak, and a gentle, nose-caressing sunflower smell were now filled with silence. Some days it was easy since he had lived following this pattern for almost 26 years but some other nights when the cries were too loud, the pain was a tad bit unbearable, he could only find refuge in the silence and darkness. Work was all he could do, think, breathe,... your typical workaholic. Marriage wasn't an option and neither was love, ooh so he thought. How surprised he was that despite his beliefs and principles, he'd find love with the least expected women?

They both rocked each other's world so suddenly yet unpredictable like an earthquake. The aftermath was quite considerable but only the more exciting.