Nour El-Fassi doesn't do anything she didn't choose — including arriving on time. A sharp-tongued Moroccan investigative journalist with a corruption case that could shake the region, she has no interest in marriage.

Karim Al-Sayed, Egypt's reluctant heir, has even less interest in being anyone's arrangement. But their families have other plans. When a political contract binds them together, neither expects the other to be quite so... inconvenient. He reads buildings like blueprints.

She reads people like sources. Together, they're either a perfect match or a perfect disaster. As Nour's investigation deepens and powerful men begin to notice, the line between performance and reality blurs — and the arrangement neither wanted becomes the one thing neither can walk away from.

Slow burn. Dual POV. Arranged marriage romance set between the riads of Rabat and the banks of the Nile.