A Marriage of Thorns

Alisha Ahmed has spent years proving she deserves to lead House of Ahmed, her family’s luxury jewellery empire.
Her father has already decided otherwise. According to Danish Ahmed, the company should eventually pass to one of his sons. Alisha will marry, leave, and build a life somewhere else.
So Alisha decides to make marriage work in her favour.
Waleed Khan is wealthy, dependable, known to her family, and unlikely to interfere with her career. He also happens to be the one man she trusts enough to ask for an outrageous favour.
A marriage of convenience.
Two years. No expectations. Carefully negotiated rules.
It should be simple.
Waleed agrees far too easily.
And once their families become involved, pretending to be in love starts requiring considerably more than either of them expected.
Especially when the boundaries Alisha was so determined to protect begin to feel less necessary.
She entered this marriage to secure her future.
She never expected Waleed to become part of it.

A Marriage of Thorns is the first book in the House of Ahmed series.