After Amani is caught with a boy in her room, her father sends her back to their home country to live with her aunt. While she waits for her father to take her back, Amani takes an interest in the handsome bakery boy who is loved by the entire town. She was supposed to find temporary entertainment in his company, not a love that would shift her entire perspective on the world around her.

Meet Xavier, our resident hero. He's just a kid, living in a house that everyone in the neighborhood calls "The Haunted House". Xavier wants to be a regular, Muslim child, but a few things stand in his way: His family isn't Muslim, and they'll do anything to keep him from becoming one. Also, he feels he isn't welcome in the mosques, seminars, and other places of worship. The last thing? Nobody in his neighborhood actually knows he exists...

Trust is gained, loyalty is returned. Mina's life has never been easy. Growing up dirt poor, she knows nothing of safety and luxury. After a tragic incident turns her world upside down, she aligns herself with the growing rebellion, hell bent on exacting revenge. Magnus lives a comfortable life as a prince in a beautiful palace. While his father runs the kingdom, he is free to do whatever he likes...as long as he remains within the castle walls. Constantly dodging attempts on his life, he struggles to know who to trust as he tries to find the love he so dearly desires. As their two worlds collide, Mina and Magnus must navigate a twisted and dangerous game as they battle their own personal demons, learning that things are not always how they appear. Marked as mature for suggestive themes/topics, violence, mentions of su/c/de ♡♡♡ Wattys 2025 Shortlist The Triple Moon Awards (2025): 1st place for General Fiction, 1st place for Best Romantic Pairing The Blood Reign Mini Awards (2025): 2nd place for Best Romance The Fathomless Verse Awards (2025): 3rd place for Best Romance The Secret Awards (2025): 2nd place in First Impressions and 1st place in Digging Deeper for the romance category Map of Our Soul Mini Awards (2025): 1st place for Best Plot The Snow Moon Mini Awards (2025): 1st place for Best Prologue The Rose Gold Awards (2025): 1st place for Best Prologue The Imperfectly Perfect Mini Awards (2025): 2nd place for Best Female Protagonist The Artistic Expression Awards (2024): 3rd place for Best Male Character

They say belief is suicide. They're not wrong. Where I come from, faith gets you a bullet in the head, a knock at the door that never ends well, or a name etched on a list you'll never live to see. Still, I believe. So does Basil, my only constant in a world stripped of everything soft. We've been hunted for years, slept under stone, eaten from dirt, prayed in secret, and watched good people vanish for whispering the wrong words. We've made it all these years with nothing but our prayers and each other. But then came the rumor about a sanctuary where the believers can live fearless. A lie, probably. A trap, almost definitely. Basil wanted to chase it anyway, because we owed it to ourselves, he said, and to the others who share our struggle. I went with him only because I couldn't bear to watch him go alone. I should've stopped him... But now it's too late. ❝Islam began as something strange, and it will return to being strange as it began, so give glad tidings to the strangers(Ghuraba).❞ ‹بَدَأَ الإِسْلاَمُ غَرِيبًا وَسَيَعُودُ كَمَا بَدَأَ غَرِيبًا فَطُوبَى لِلْغُرَبَاءِ› (Includes books one and two, in The Ghuraba Duology.)