QAID-E-HISAR

She thought she was accepting an arranged marriage.

He knew he was building a prison.

Aayat Mirza returned from Yale with one dream: to lead the empire she had spent years preparing for. Becoming the youngest CEO of Mirza Group was never about power. It was about freedom. She refused to let anyone decide the course of her life, until a marriage proposal from her family's oldest business rival changed everything.

To the world, Shahryar Shah is the ruthless heir of Shah Group, a businessman whose name commands respect in every boardroom he enters.

What the world doesn't know is that his empire stretches far beyond glass towers and billion-dollar deals.

When Aayat unknowingly begins searching for answers buried deep within his world, Shahryar makes a decision that will alter both of their lives.

Keep her close.

Control every move she makes.

Discover every secret she's hiding.

An arranged marriage becomes the perfect trap.

But cages have a dangerous habit of trapping the one who builds them.

As old wounds reopen, forgotten memories claw their way back to the surface, and a past soaked in blood refuses to stay buried, husband and wife find themselves standing on opposite sides of the same truth.

Some vows are made before God.

Others are forged in lies, revenge, and the promise that one of them will eventually destroy the other.

Or perhaps...

Themselves.