AFFAIRS OF THE HEART

UPDATED EDITION

Follow the story of Jalilah, a bright and spirited eighteen-year-old who has known only love and protection despite losing her parents at a young age. Raised by her devoted uncle, she grows up believing in warmth, loyalty, and the quiet comfort of belonging.

And Jalal—a twenty-eight-year-old man of wealth, influence, and unshakable composure.

Feared, desired, yet never truly known, he lives behind carefully constructed walls, guarding a past that has hardened him in ways no one has ever dared to question.

When an arranged marriage binds their lives together, two worlds collide-innocence and experience, light and restraint, hope and guarded silence.

As Jalilah steps into a marriage she barely understands, she is faced with a man who offers her everything... except himself.

Can her warmth reach the parts of him he has long buried?

Or will Jalal's darkness consume them both before she ever gets close enough to try?