As a Muslim girl, marriage is one of Safia's biggest dreams. All her life she kept herself pure for her faith and her future husband. Although having never had experienced love, and occasionally doubting whether she will, Safia feels herself growing impatient being single. She then sends her family to search for 'the one.' Trusting her family, she decides to say yes to the first person her family finds for her. She believes she will get married and face all her problems with her husband by her side. Is it really as simple as that? Yusuf feels a void in his heart. He tries to deny it, but he knows his mother's not proud of him. He knows she wishes he could be a little more modern like his brother. He wanted his family to find him a wife while he could focus on his deen (faith), but his idea of a wife clashes with his mother's. Seeing that his family were struggling to find him someone he likes, he decides to take matters into his own hands. But is he rushing into decisions without thinking?

| COMPLETED | Some say brother and sister Leo and Amber are just too close. They say the tragedy that left them alone as children is just too strange, too sad. It seems all Leo and Amber really have is each other. And music. Always the music. That is until the band they've been in for as long as they can remember - The Dovetails - begins to attract attention - and not just from a few friends in their tiny English village. Becoming less and less isolated in the world Amber, aged 17, starts to tread a path she's never walked before. And so, their lives begin to change but the question remains - can there really be any room for anyone else in their lives apart from each other? (story comes complete with original photos taken by Matt Brown especially for this book, model is Erin Greig) *first draft* © 2013 G.S. Banks. All rights reserved.