Imaan Ali has built her life on discipline and restraint. With a childhood scarred by loss and secrets she has never shared, and a mother who sacrificed everything to raise her daughters, she knows better than to believe in fairy tales. Success at work is the only promise she allows herself—and love has no place in her plans.
But fate has other ideas. One rainy night outside a multiplex, she ends up sharing an auto with a stranger—older, confident, and far too unsettling. She never expects to see him again. Until she walks into her new job at Meridian Enterprises…and finds him seated behind the CEO’s desk.
Haider Khalil, newly appointed CEO of Meridian, is brilliant, controlled, and ruthlessly focused. Imaan is just another junior marketing executive—until a family dinner backed him into a corner. To silence the pressure to marry, he blurts out the first thing that comes to mind: he’s already in love. With Imaan.
Now, caught in a fake engagement neither of them wanted, Imaan is forced into Haider’s orbit—office whispers, his family’s approving smiles, and the simmering tension every time his gaze lingers too long. For a man who claims not to believe in love, Haider is making it dangerously easy for her heart to betray her.
But when the news reaches Imaan’s conservative family and tragedy strikes at home, she’s reminded of why she built walls in the first place. She wants to walk away before she loses everything. Haider is not ready to let her go.
One lie started it.
A thousand unspoken promises could change everything.
Trigger warning: Mention of child sexual abuse.
