"Not all Muslims are terrorists." You know how people say never to judge a book by its cover? I shouldn't have done that myself. Growing up with racist parents planted a negative reputation of Muslims in my head. So, I started believing everything they've told me. I thought Muslims were the reason crisis was happening around the world. I thought Islam was an evil religion. But, boy, was I wrong. Everything changed, the day I met the Muslimah next door.

You might have heard that your life is never in your hands. Well, young, vibrant and care-free Umamah Sulaym is about to learn the full extent of the phrase. With a father who made engaging her to a man almost twice her age a dying wish, she is about to learn that responsibility knows no age and that duty is duty. Will she weave through the process of growing up, being married, being a mother and learning about her Lord at the same time or would she drown in the overwhelming burden of it all? He is cursed. Or at least, so they all say. Faisal Abdul-Rahman is a widower who has lost hope in love and marriage. Besides being a domineering Boss, he is a master at isolation and everyone knows better to stay miles away from him. But when his only friend asks him to marry his oldest daughter as his dying wish, he is both appalled and compelled. Will he fulfill the promise, become a husband and a father again and risk losing his solitude garden forever or let the 16-year-old kid and her siblings whom he had come to take as his own children find comfort elsewhere?

She was Intelligent, passionate and a natural care giver. At 26, Amanah Sa'eed was ready to take on the world as it came. As long as she pushed and prayed, no matter where she was from or what had happened in the past, nothing would hold her back from achieving her dreams. She would be free, love and learn to be loved. After all, what had a poor orphan to lose but a little shred of dignity? But she will soon learn that things of the past do not necessarily remain in the past and that the only true healing is of Allah, from Allah. From the benign looking to the lethal heartened, Ahmad Amjad Yaasir thought he had seen it all. He was a Confident Conqueror to the public, a Strict Boss to his staff, a Legal Lethal to his colleagues, but only Amanah Sa'eed saw through that thick layered skin. The child behind the cloak. Once their paths crossed, he was certain they were destined to be and Ahmad would be dense to let her go. Together, they will weave through the shackles within and learn to ignore the scars it left behind until the day they are no longer MARRED.