Ice Heart & Ember Eyes
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Months after a devastating fire kills twenty-one people at one of Istanbul's most luxurious seaside restaurants, the lives of the powerful Alkan family begin to collapse from the inside.
The fire was never meant to happen.
Hidden beneath the restaurant were priceless antiquities being smuggled through illegal trading routes controlled by influential businessmen. The plan was simple: burn the evidence after the building had emptied for the night. But something went wrong. The fire started too early, trapping innocent people inside and turning a cover-up into a massacre.
Among those responsible were brothers Altan and Aslan Alkan.
During the chaos, Aslan abandoned his fiancée, Maya, to save himself. She survived only because a stranger pulled her out of the flames moments before the building collapsed. That night shattered whatever love remained between them.
But the tragedy did not end there.
To protect themselves and the Alkan family name, Altan and Aslan blamed the entire operation on Maya's father, a respected antiquities dealer involved in the smuggling network. Facing prison, humiliation, and public disgrace, the man took his own life before the investigation could reach court.
Maya never forgave them.
To her, the Alkan brothers were not only responsible for the fire-but for her father's death as well.
Inside the Alkan mansion, another nightmare unfolds behind closed doors.
Altan Alkan's wife, Defne, attempted to escape her controlling marriage after years of emotional and psychological abuse. But Altan brought her back, manipulated her medical records, drugged her into instability, and staged a violent incident in front of their young daughter, Ela.
The child witnessed what appeared to be her mother attacking her father with a knife.
Defne was institutionalized soon after.
Traumatized by what she saw, Ela develops severe PTSD and becomes unable to return to school. To protect her from public attention, the family hires a private live-in tutor.
That is how Sall
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