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Hyacinth
Paperback
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
HYACINTH is about loving someone who is slowly slipping away, and the quiet ruin that kind of love leaves behind.
Kharqa Begum has spent years living like a closed door, her world reduced to silence and wilted flowers. Until one morning, a man arrives at dawn and asks for a single purple hyacinth. His name is Anwar: gentle, distant, and carrying a love so heavy it threatens to crush him.
Every dawn he returns. Every dawn Kharqa feels her heart daring to beat again.
But Anwar belongs to someone she never sees, someone who lives like a shadow in every word he says. Kabir: the unseen center of Anwar's world, the reason he clings to hope even as it hurts him.
These three lives tighten around each other like a knot: one breaking, one holding on, one falling in love with a heart already spoken for.
This is a story about the hopelessness that binds them, the devotion that saves, the longing that ruins, and the cost of choosing someone who may never choose you back.
Some stories bloom. Some stories bleed. This one does both.
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