𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 (𝘢.) /mɑːskt/ (of one's true character or feelings) concealed. . 𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐊 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓 the king. He's the ruler whose brow is laid in thorn, smeared with oil like David's boy. Malik is put well together and never lets his mask fall. Emotions aren't his specialty, and the ones he has, he conceals behind a content mask, that only his inner circle gets to witness. He wears his pride like his crown and holds his head high. Malik is machine-made, and doesn't let his emotions control his better judgment. All of which evaporates when he lays eyes on his fiancé. But what happens when the world he's so familiar with comes crashing down right before his eyes and he's bound to marry a stranger, having to make up for his absent father's mess, again? 𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈 𝐐𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐑 is the princess of a small island in the middle of the north African sea. Her father has always been her entire world, and watching her old man kicking the bucket soon, has taken a toll on Amani. Not having her mother's support, due to her passing, she faces the kingdom she is to rule sooner than later, with a mask on her face, as she conceals her true feelings; despair. Amani has always been a sucker for the rules, finding a sense of comfort behind the lines she knows better than to cross. Said lines would be falling in love with any man. But her comfort escapes her body, along with her breath when she learns about her engagement to the man who's an outsider in her world. A foreigner. A businessman from the states, who possesses a British accent. Son of the Libyan foreign minister. With her hands tied to a stranger's she finds herself alone in a world she knows all too well. Both of them are strangers, but will they surprise each other? .