Yasmeen never imagined her father would marry her off to Khaleel-a man she barely knows, a stranger with sharp eyes and a softer side he hides from the world. Their marriage starts with silence, cold stares, and unanswered texts... but fate keeps pulling them closer. Between stolen glances, unspoken words, and late-night drives, Yasmeen slowly learns that falling for her husband might be the sweetest kind of danger. But she isn't alone in this story. Her best friend Intisar carries scars of her own, and Ya Amar-the quiet observer-might just be the one to heal them. ✨ Secrets. Silent wars. Slow-burn tension. When duty collides with desire, will love be enough to save them all?

In a world where love doesn't come softly and healing isn't always gentle, Velvet Hearts follows the emotional journey of Hafsat,a young woman battling the silent storms of PCOS while trying to hold on to her identity, her strength, and her heart. When a quiet man like Abdallah walks into her life, walls begin to shake. But nothing is simple,not their connection, not her struggles. Between piercing words, misunderstood intentions, longing glances, and the battle to be enough, Hafsat must choose whether love is worth the vulnerability. A story of scars,some seen, most hidden. A tale of love that tests patience, friendship that heals, and pain that refines. Velvet Hearts is not just romance. It's the raw, real, and rare kind of love... stitched with velvet, but edged with thorns.

Where love is messy, healing is slow, and every heart in the Awasthi family learns to beat again. In a world of ancestral secrets, chaotic weddings, and unresolved pasts, three tangled love stories unfold-each stitched together with heartbreak, longing, and the quiet hope that maybe, just maybe, love still has a place. --- Ahaan x Dhriti "I can be a father, Dhriti. But I cannot be your husband. I don't feel anything for you." She was his arranged wife. He was her everything. Six years, one daughter, and a quiet divorce later-Ahaan and Dhriti share custody and awkward silences. But love, in its gentlest form, begins to bloom in the most unexpected domestic moments. Tropes: Grumpy x Sunshine Second Chances Arranged Marriage → Divorce → Love Again Stoic MMC (unresolved trauma) x Strong FMC Co-Parenting Therapy --- Arush x Shyra "I don't believe in love, Arush. But with you, I'm willing to take the risk." She's all cold logic and unhealed scars. He's her best friend's younger brother-and the only person who sees through her defenses. Tropes: Reverse Grumpy x Sunshine Age Gap (reverse) Brother's Best Friend Marriage of convenience Lawyer x Forensic Scientist Workplace Romance --- Ahsaas x Ishan "I broke your heart once, Ishan. Maybe twice. But this time, I'll fight for you. Even if I have to burn the whole world down to be yours again." Once childhood sweethearts. Now, exes forced into an arranged engagement. She's chaos in couture. He's calm in a cardigan. Somewhere between unexpected tenderness, they discover that love never really left-it was just waiting to be found again. Tropes: Chaotic FMC x Calm MMC Arranged Engagement Second Chances Love → Hate → Love Again Emotional Slow Burn Accidental Pregnancy No Cheating || Found family || Chaotic Desi Family || Toxic Soceity mentioned [No 18+ chapters, But mentions of mature themes]

When Mahnoor Hidayah Muazu accompanies her best friend to a marital programme at the International Conference Centre, she has no idea that it will only take an hour lecture to reopen a past she thought she had successfully put behind her. Abdulmanan Abubakar Harun senses a story behind the words of the woman who captures his attention. The decision to go after her when the lecture is over sets the foundation for a number of events that brings them together in more ways than one - where walls have to broken, loyalty and trust have to be tested and nightmares have to be faced to get the happy ending Abdulmanan and Mahnoor have always sought after. Published in e-copy and paperback by Phoenix Award Publications (Pabpub) in October, 2022. Published as a downloadable e-copy on Selar in April, 2023

{Completed} Jawahir Malik Zayyad, the last thing she expected to happen to her is getting married. Especially when she has just finished high school and about to have as she thought, the best time of her live. All those dreams and desires were abruptly snatched away from her when her grandmother demands she gets married this instant. Then came in Aayan Abbas Abdullah, the last thing on his mind or agenda is getting married, he has no passion or interest whatsoever. Then all of a sudden his parents proposed the idea of him getting married to one of his dad's best friend's daughter. 'The ball is in your court' they said. He has the utmost desire to fulfill his Ammiey's wish, which is to get married, as he is the only son. Will they learn how to love each other? Or will darkness take over?! What happens when they each find out that there's more than what just meet the eyes between the two of them? Join me as I tell you the love story of Aayan and Jawahir!!! #JaYan❤✨🌹🔐 Rankings; #1 in arabs #1 in hausa #1 in wattpadbanters #2 in spiritual #2 in nigeria #3 in nigerian #3 in muslimlovestory #5 in muslim #8 in arrangedmarriage #8 in baking #21 in halal STARTED: 19th June 2018 COMPLETED: 27th February 2020 Copyright © 2018 Maimunatu I Bukar. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior written permission of Maimunatu I Bukar. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. ©️ Maimunatu I Bukar

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Living with the teenage thought of life always being a bed of roses, Aisha Umar Faruk got her life damaged at the revelation of her mother being a prostitute and she was raped to pay for the crimes her mother committed. Dr. Nasir was her saviour and she lived with him, having a fantasy of a love filled life until his heartless brother broke apart her rope of hope and she was left with a broken heart to stitch. Being married to Abba was a whole painful phase for Aisha and the path she followed in knowing what had been enshrouded even before she was born. "Who was the guy you were kissing right before the eyes of thousand of people?!" "What were you doing in A & H hotel with a guy?!" "Where are you from?" All these questions and even more were asked by her husband and the answer was always the same, "I haven't gone out of this house even since the day you restrained me from doing so." He had never believed her, because she was always the one he saw. But she was telling him the truth, because she wasn't the one he saw. Who was this lady that added more salt to the wounds of Aisha Umar Faruk?

Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction? ****** Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]

| ZAEEF BOOK II | "You have a beautiful laugh" she said. "Whatever do you mean?" "When you laugh, it reminds of me of poetry" "That is new" "Its me. Its not new" * She fell for him the moment her eyes met his gray ones. Except she was not what he was looking for. Or so he thought. Take the journey of self discovery, of changes and of love with the second Zaeef brother, Yazdan Zaeef and the girl who he thought was just not his type, Aanabia Sadaf. * | Can be read as a stand alone book | Copyright scopian_16 2019

At mid twenties, Salma moved with an aura of a dignified conduct and self integrity. She had built around herself beautiful walls where she was sorrounded by a great family, a job she loved, few amazing friends and a super cool boyfriend. Her life was good and she couldn't ask for more. Everything came crashing down when a phase in her past stormed back at her, breaking the walls and taking everything away from her, resulting behind a bed-stricken sick mother and an unforgiving disappointed father who shut the doors on her, and worse, she found herself married to the cause of her misery, a man she barely knew, and hatred was one word to describe what she felt for him. Tareeq, an influential industrialist had always been a man of a few words, but somehow, he got a hideous word out which threatened to shatter a family. In a desperate need to right his wrong, he made a rash and irrational decision and now he was married to a girl with a questionable past. He didn't know if he would be able to accept her. She promised to make his life a living hell. Destiny had something else in store for them. Add this book to your library today and join in this roller coaster...