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Khairiyya's life changed the day her father died.
At twelve years old, she lost not only the man who loved her most, but also the only place she had ever called home. Abandoned by a mother eager to start a new life with a new husband, Khairiyya was left in the care of her late father's older brother and his wife-a couple who welcomed her with open arms and loved her as their own.
For five years, she found comfort in their kindness, unaware that a promise made long ago had already tied her future to someone she had never met.
Rayyan never expected to return home and find a stranger living in his house.
After years abroad, he comes back to discover that the quiet girl his parents took in after her father's death is no longer a child. Worse still, she is the fiancée he never agreed to have.
At twenty-six, marriage is the last thing on his mind.
At seventeen, Khairiyya wants nothing more than to belong.
Bound by a promise neither of them made, they find themselves caught between family expectations, old wounds, and feelings neither is willing to acknowledge.
But when the past comes knocking and the people who once abandoned Khairiyya suddenly want a place in her life, she is forced to choose between the family that left her behind and the one that chose her.
In a story of love, loss, faith, and belonging, Khairiyya learns that sometimes the people Allah places in your life are worth more than the ones you were born to.
And sometimes, home is not a place.
It's a person.
Will this live survive??
17 & 25 does that makes sense??
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