Planting Lilies
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Diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, twenty-three-year-old Sabra Hamdi has spent her whole life striving-for grades, for approval, for a future she's not sure she'll live to see. So she does the one thing she never has: she goes home.
There, she meets Nour, a nurse whose grief for her own late sister mirrors everything Sabra can't say out loud. And she reunites with Haidar-the boy she once tormented in kindergarten, now a broad-shouldered paramedic who can't seem to stop watching her like she's something he's trying to solve.
But Sabra is keeping her diagnosis a secret from the family she came home to be with. And the longer she stays, the harder it becomes to hide the truth-from her parents, from Haidar, and from the faith she buried the moment she stopped believing anyone was watching.
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