Hijabiromance Stories

Rahila just wanted love that felt safe. Instead, she got lessons that nearly broke her. At seventeen, she leaves Nigeria for university in Manchester soft-hearted, hopeful, and sheltered. She arrives with dreams in her heart and a scarf around her face, never imagining the men she'd meet would teach her more about pain than passion. This is not just a love story. It's a story of soft girls who survive. Of breaking and rebuilding. Of du'a whispered into the night and hope that refuses to die.

Jannah has lived her whole life as a bystander, going through the motions, to reach the next step. When she meets Elliot she realises how wrong she was. She starts living for herself. Elliot has spent his live yearning for more. He has everything, money, respect, honour but still somehow feels incomplete. Until he meets Jannah, and slowly the missing pieces start falling into place. One discovers herself and one discovers his religion. A self discovery journey until they are ready for each other.

'Her eyes were like two drops of coffee in a cloud of milk' he sighed. 'Really?' I giggled. 'What' "really"?' He asked. 'I didn't know you could be so romantic! That's so sweet!' I didn't know I was smiling but found I was when my jaw started hurting. He smirked, 'I'm never really very romantic but I can be if I want to...' I looked solemnly out the window. If only he knew I had eyes only for him. I remembered our late night conversations like they were happening in the present,every last detail. The tree was so beautiful. It was Autumn and the leaves were golden,yellow,orange,red AND even purple! It was my favourite season. Azhan Ali I honestly love you.

She was never the loud one. Never the pretty one. Never the one chosen. In a world where soft girls like her are forgotten, Zahra tries to disappear until he notices her. But she's Muslim. And good Muslim girls don't fall in love... right? Barely Enough is a raw, slow-burning coming-of-age story about faith, insecurity, first crushes, and finding yourself in the silence.