Nazneen Mansur has spent her life trying to hold her family together after her father's debts left them with nothing but a fading fashion house and a pile of expectations. Between caring for her mother, Haj Zainabu, and her younger sister, Nusayba, she built herself into a woman of strength and silence.
Next door lives Ajeed Abdur-Rauf, the heir to an empire, the boy she once teased as small yaro, and the man who later made her forget every rule she ever knew. Their secret bond began in innocence and grew into something that split both families apart.
Years later, tragedy, memory loss, and a forced marriage drive them in opposite directions. She is rebuilding her career. He is trapped by his powerful mother, Haj Rakiya, and an ambitious wife, Lamia.
When fate throws them together again, old flames reignite, but so do the enemies around them. Kareem Mahmoud, Nazneen's obsessive former classmate, now works beside her, his jealousy brewing into danger. Sofia, his beautiful but unstable lover, wants Nazneen ruined at all costs.
Then, one night, everything erupts.
Ajeed and Nazneen wake in a hotel room soaked in blood, Sofia's body between them, the police banging at the door.
Inspector Khalid, sharp-eyed and relentless, must piece together the truth as every clue leads back to family secrets, betrayal, and a love that refuses to die.
Behind the murder lies a past no one wants uncovered, one that could destroy two families and expose a chain of revenge years in the making.
It took a wrong turn to align their paths.
They met at a time when both were lost souls, navigating through loss and the storms of life.
At first, it was silence and long stares. Then the sceptical meetings blossomed into an orbit of comfort that uncovered the similarities of their souls in the bleak room of a psychiatric hospital. What began as hush tunes in their hearts boomed into a fierce crescendo.
Noorie was a woman of fire, spontaneous and outgoing which rivalled Amir's quiet, organised and shy nature. Yet, their differences were a factor in the whole circumstances that bonded theirs hearts, souls and lives. They decided to take the leap into a life together. Marriage.
It took her away from home, across the continent to the city of London where a new life awaits her. Her optimism was great. She was ready to learn the new way of life and fit in. But her new family found ways to tell her she was not fair enough to be part of them nor would they give her a chance to fit in.
Little did she know that should be the least of her problems. There were a lot the man, her husband, with honey-wheat eyes that captivates her, whose sincerity melts her heart, and attitude races it had hidden from her. So much that brought fears, insecurities and secrets neither her nor her husband were ready for.