Opposites attract, they say...is it so? There is nothing common in Anand and Anamika, except for music, and yet they fall in love...what happens next is something celestial. If love is a bed of roses then marriage is the proverbial thorn. What does it take for these two to get married and stay happily that way? Compromises, adjustment, understanding, tact...and overwhelming love for each other...The novel follows the life of Dr. Anand, hailing from a north Indian Kayastha family, and Dr. Anamika, hailing from a south Indian Brahmin family, right from their days in the medical college and continues for the next three decades. A fairy tale bumping into each other, introduction, followed by dreamy romance, familial opposition, down to earth marriage, two daughters who are a credit to them, friends and buddies who enrichen their life...with stars in their eyes and wings to their dreams, Anand and Anamika look forward to their future together. And all is hunky-dory till Anamika is diagnosed with cancer and given not more than three months to live...her untimely demise shatters her family & friends. A devastated Anand then seeks for an emotional closure by fulfilling his late wife's last desire in her memory: plant a sapling with an NGO

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