Aylin Kaya used to be simple. Quiet. Slow. That's what everyone said, and for a long time, it was true. Until the day her mind cleared—and she realised she'd been played.

Her father and sister have sold her off, dressed her in a bridal gown, and sent her to marry Levent Kurt in her sister's place. He's a feared name in Starfall Port's underworld, a man who once ruled by force and precision, until a betrayal left him a cripple, half-forgotten and half-pitied.

They think he won't notice. They think Aylin will be grateful.

But Aylin agrees for her own reasons. She wants out. Away from the Kaya family compound, where she's been locked away like an afterthought for most of her life.

Except the man she marries isn't what he seems.

Levent Kurt isn't crippled. He isn't soft. And once he discovers the switch, he decides not to return her, not to punish her, but to keep her.

And Aylin doesn't understand why.

Trapped in a marriage built on lies and blood, Aylin must learn to survive not just Starfall Port, but Levent himself.

For readers who love twisted arranged marriages, knife-edged courtship, and dark, seductive power games in a city ruled by shadows.