Nicole, a young, vibrant writer, travels back from Istanbul to Beirut to be reunited with her grandmother, from whom she holds her name. In the wondrous city of Beirut, her grandmother decides to tell her the secret of how she met her grandfather and fell in love with him, in addition to the perilous war that both of them faced. This novel is about two innocent lovers, Rami & Nicole, who found love in times of hate and war. It is about two hearts that were flamed by pure love and loyalty that not even the darkness of enmity could quell or quench. Their love defied the boundaries of the dim shadows that befell them, and its gloomy army couldn’t let their love go asunder. Rami & Nicole’s story portrays the power of passion and love that breached the wall of loathing and replaced the memory of the (4) days of a brutal, beguiling war with love and hope.









