Mercy Among Enemies
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In the ashes of a fallen kingdom, where empire and faith collide, an English officer and a veiled healer are drawn together by fate.
Captain Edmund Ashford, wounded and lost after a brutal campaign in colonial India, awakens under the care of a mysterious Muslim woman whose touch is both merciful and defiant. She calls herself a healer - yet behind her quiet grace lies a hidden fire.
Zuleikha Rahman lives in secrecy, tending to the wounded by day and commanding rebels by night. When she saves an enemy soldier, her world of shadows begins to unravel. Bound by honour, faith, and forbidden longing, they stand on opposite sides of a war that neither can truly escape.
Amid desert winds and whispered prayers, love becomes both sanctuary and peril - and each must decide what they are willing to sacrifice: their duty, their faith, or their hearts.
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