What Love Takes

Jameel built his life on the solid architecture of duty-a senior advisor in Baghdad's Ministry, his honor is his currency, his marriage his obligation. He is content with the geometry of his life.

Until he meets Fouz Kareem.

A qualified attorney hired through a favor he couldn't refuse, Fouz is competence and steadiness personified. In one instant, she shatters his world, forcing him to confront an impossible truth: he is irrevocably in love with a woman he cannot have.

For five years, Jameel fights an internal war between duty and desire. He chooses cruelty as his weapon, driving Fouz away to protect his honor and his family. But when supernatural forces conspire against them both, and Jameel is freed from the magic that compelled him to reject her, they are finally reunited.

Yet their marriage lasts only weeks before Fouz walks away, understanding a devastating truth: some loves cannot survive the weight of human weakness.

From the author of Before the Autumn Fades comes a slow-burn, forbidden romance that proves the deepest loves can also be the most devastating- and that sometimes, the price of love is a loss you never recover from.