The Jasmine Gate

Two brothers stand before a jasmine-draped gate in 1860s Damascus, each convinced the other is making a fatal mistake. One stays to guard the family home through empire and revolution; the other sails to Argentina to build a new life from nothing. A century and a half later, civil war drives their descendants together in Buenos Aires—two women who share blood but not language, separated by an ocean and 150 years of silence. What they discover in a faded photograph will upend everything they thought they knew about home, loss, and where roots truly grow.