I’m forcibly taken away from my mother and made to marry a man I don’t know. Asad is a cold man who doesn’t even consider me a person—just a debt he is obligated to pay to my uncle. He is my jailer. The man I’ll have to share a roof, a name, and soon even a marital bed with. He says this marriage is his duty, that he doesn’t want me the way I don’t want him. But the more I resist, the heavier his gaze becomes. The tighter his hand on my wrist. The more dangerous his voice, right at my ear. I won’t let him break me. But if I lose… I’ll become his forever.