I'd Never Say I Love You

Valentine thought he understood what a successful life looked like. At thirty-two, he had wealth, respect, and a future carefully arranged by everyone except himself. Then a chance meeting outside a church introduces him to Hiraya, a Filipino immigrant whose warmth unsettles the careful order of Valentine's world. Through shared meals, family wounds, and ordinary acts of care, two lonely men begin building something neither expected to find. I'd Never Say I Love You is a literary romance about the distance between being admired and being known.