# **ISHQ** She had one rule about marriage: **It should make life softer, not harder.** Inaya Khan had built a life she loved. A demanding career. A family she adored. A future she had planned for herself. Marriage wasn't part of that plan-not unless she found someone who could respect the life she'd already built. Then came **Zavian Siddique**. Calm. Reserved. Impossible to read. A wildlife conservationist who had built his own world far away from his family's business empire. And, unfortunately for Inaya, her brother's best friend. The man she never expected to marry becomes the man her family brings home with a **rishta**. But Zavian doesn't ask her to give up her career. He doesn't ask her to become someone else. Instead, he gives her the one thing she never expected from a husband: **choice.** What begins as a carefully considered marriage slowly becomes something neither of them planned for. Between family chaos, childhood memories, endless teasing, quiet conversations, and two very different worlds- Inaya and Zavian begin to discover that sometimes the person you agree to marry... is the person you were never expecting to love. Because a **rishta** can be chosen. But **ishq**? Maybe that was always written by fate.

Maktub a high school romance by Snofia Some things begin with a look. Not a long one. Not a brave one. Just a look - accidental and caught, over in a second. But the second stays. Set in a small fictional town in North India. A Muslim love story told in silences, not confessions. No touching. No grand gestures. Just eyes and stolen moments and the quiet miracle of two people who kept looking until looking became its own kind of answer. some hearts are written in the quietest prayers. maktub - it is written. 🌙 with the whole weight of who you are behind it.