When Maha leaves behind the suffocating expectations of her family back in Dhaka for a scholarship at Trinity College in Edinburgh, she imagines freedom will taste like silence, solitude, and study. But her world is upended the day she meets Sam - a rugged, kind-hearted Scotsman with eyes full of curiosity and a smile that disarms her defenses. As Maha navigates her first taste of independence in a country so wildly different from her own, Sam becomes both a temptation and a mirror - reflecting back the woman she's slowly becoming. But love, for Maha, is not just complicated - it's forbidden. Her family's rules are absolute. Her father's sacrifices loom large. And when her heart begins to choose Sam over arranged suitors and expectations, everything she's ever known begins to unravel. Torn between the man she loves and the family she fears losing, Maha must confront what freedom truly costs. And when she's forced to return home - only to be disowned. Can love survive when everything else falls apart? A story of forbidden love, cultural identity, and the ache of becoming someone new - A Melody of Skin is a slow-burn romance about what happens when two people from different worlds fall in love.

A/N: This is an unedited, significantly different version of the soon to be published novel by losangelesque aka L. Akhter. This draft was written when I was 15-18 years old and I highly encourage new readers to read the published version instead. Former high school football star Frank Novak meets profound and depressed loner Lolita Abri - and falls headfirst into love. Throughout the course of one school year, they unravel each other and their sadness, setting apart their differences and realizing that sometimes love isn't enough - and sometimes it just might be. [FIRST DRAFT] Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXTbhopy9ts © All Rights Reserved. Teen Fic #7 A Wattpad Featured story