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He was the enemy she was never supposed to love.
She was the prisoner he was never supposed to remember.
Aynur had always believed the stars were quieter than the sun.
They waited patiently in the darkness, distant and beautiful, asking nothing of anyone.
Then war came to Nahr.
At nineteen, Aynur has her whole life imagined ahead of her: a family she adores, clothes she longs to sew, places she dreams of seeing, and a future husband she hopes will be her light.
Until soldiers tear her from that life and bury her beneath the earth in a prison she may never escape.
There, she meets Yusuf.
Twenty-four. A commander in the army occupying her homeland. Respected by soldiers. Feared by prisoners. A man she has every reason to despise.
And yet, somehow, he keeps appearing in the corners of a life that is falling apart.
She doesn't know why he notices her.
He doesn't know why he remembers her.
Neither of them knows that their lives are already tangled in a secret powerful enough to threaten an empire.
Because sometimes love does not arrive gently.
Sometimes it finds you in the middle of a war.
Sometimes the person who becomes your light...
is the very person standing on the other side of the battlefield.
A historical romance of war, faith, captivity, political secrets, sacrifice and a love that was never meant to exist.
Some stars are meant to guide you home.
Others are meant to burn beside you.