THIS BOOK IS NOW A PREVIEW Surrayya doesn't do complications. Life is sweet when you keep things simple- bake, paint, watch F1, and avoid emotional entanglements. Feelings? Too messy. Love? Too risky. She'd rather stick to what she can control: her dreams, her business, and her ever-growing collection of car facts no one asks for. Hafiz likes life structured. Numbers make sense. Investments have predictable outcomes. He has always believed that with enough discipline, life can be controlled. But lately, he's starting to realize- some things aren't meant to follow a formula, proving that even the best-laid plans can crash and burn. Their paths weren't supposed to cross. And yet, somehow, they crashed into each other-in the most unexpected place. She's all spontaneity; he's all logic. She runs from feelings; he's learning to confront them. Neither of them is looking for love, but love? It might just be looking for them. Because sometimes, the best things in life happen when you're not paying attention.

What happens when the choices you made come back to haunt you? Set in Lagos, Nigeria, Zhulfah Ilyas comes back home after University, only to feel the four walls of her home squeezing in on her. There is a hollowness in her, a guilt she carries, and she finds herself making choices to redeem herself. Impulsive, some would say, but she has thought through the reality of how her future would be, even though getting married wasn't in the equation anytime soon. They say relationships hold up a mirror to show who you are. The question is, what happens to the self and the relationship when the reflection isn't one Zhulfah is willing to face?