For eight months, Dr. Mark Vance has been visiting Sheehan’s Nursery to buy flowers for his mother’s grave, and every week, Hal Sheehan slips an extra lily into the bunch. Mark would love nothing more than to get to know the gentle giant better, but in 1950s Baltimore, a man just doesn’t ask another man out. His fears are compounded when a visit the day before Valentine’s casts doubts on Hal’s intentions. Maybe he really was meant to live a life of secrets. Or maybe he just needs the holiday to discover the best secret of them all.

“I made him cry because he made you cry,” Kabir exclaimed to a dewy-eyed Ashima when they were kids. “If he made me laugh, would you tell him jokes?” She chuckled. Kabir and Ashima were unlike, but they loved each other. After fifteen years, Ashima said, “The whole concept of love is fake.” She had not confessed her love nor accepted Kabir’s half-hearted proposals. She had seen her parents fall out of love. But can someone really fall out of love? Can love or the expression be half-hearted? Eventually, they united, but this love story had its own challenges.

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