Ashes Beneath the Veils

They accused her of defilement.

Sixteen-year-old Nasrin Farhadi waited on the platform at dawn, sentenced by laws that gauge a woman's dignity by her compliance. The broadcast lasted only seconds before the screen flickered off. By nightfall, her name was gone.

But someone was watching.
Something that wasn't scripted.
Something that meant Nasrin was supposed to be forgotten.
But perhaps her execution is what will set something much more deadly loose.
Under all the veils of grief and sorrow, embers are burning.