THE SALT IN HER HAIR

Layla Haddad has lived her whole life behind silence-obedient, veiled, controlled. When her father arranges her marriage without consent, she finally breaks. In the dead of night, with a trembling heart and a stolen passport, she flees Iraq for a small coastal town in Turkey, hoping to start over as a professor-free, unknown, untouched.

What she doesn't expect is Mira.

Mira, her student. Outspoken, magnetic, full of laughter and fire. A girl who walks into Layla's classroom like she owns the world-and soon, Layla's heart. Layla resists, she has to-because loving Mira means risking everything: her job, her freedom, even her place in the world she sacrificed everything to escape from.

But love isn't something you choose.
It chooses you.
Even when it's forbidden.
Even when it's dangerous.
Even when it's a girl who calls you "miss" in the daylight...
and whispers your name at night.

slow burn ❤️‍🔥
age gap 🫦
student x professor ✨