BOUND BY QADR

He does not believe in love.
She has never stopped believing in it.
Neither of them expected marriage to be the answer.

Ramla Muhammad Mai Fata was raised between two worlds.

Born and raised in Canada to the prominent Mai Fata family of Nigeria, she has grown up surrounded by privilege, family, faith, books, and the quiet protection of a father who would give her the world if he could. At eighteen, university is supposed to be the beginning of her own life.

Instead, her father gives her something she never expected-

A husband.

Khalid ibn Ibrahim Al-Qahtani is thirty-six, Saudi, immensely wealthy, and the heir to one of the most powerful business families in the Gulf. He built his reputation through oil and gold, expanded his family's empire, and is now turning his attention toward construction.

There is only one problem.

Khalid does not believe in love.

He watched his mother abandon his father when the family's fortunes declined, leaving behind a man who loved her deeply enough to nearly lose himself after she walked away. Khalid learned his lesson early: wealth can disappear, promises can break, and love is the most unreliable contract of all.

So when his father proposes a marriage to the daughter of a Nigerian steel magnate, Khalid sees exactly what it is

A business arrangement.

Ramla sees it differently.

She doesn't know the man she is being asked to marry. She doesn't know what life in Saudi Arabia will be like, what kind of husband Khalid will become, or whether two strangers can build a life together.

But she knows one thing.

Some marriages are chosen by people.
Some are written by fate.
And some are written by Allah.