(I know, I know, it’s AI generated. I’m working on it…)

It is 2356 AD. From the Bosphorus to the Hebrides, the banner of Islam waves unchallenged, while men live and die in a peace wrought in the shadow of a mushroom cloud.

Maryam lives on the fringe of this Islamic world, in a town still partly unassimilated. Work is hard, school is dull, but she's acquired a respectable trade and an excellent match. The only son of a rich banker has had his eye on her since forever. What more could a woman hope for? Her parents have everything arranged. If only she could be happy in the richest cabin on a sinking ship.

Then a handsome stranger from The Society comes from the ancestral homeland. With him, he brings a message of hope, a deadly secret -- and one single, solitary ticket on a ship to cross the ocean. So begins an uncertain journey to a new home, in the heart of the Caliphate; where ancient fields lie untilled, where safety blurs into danger, and where freedom - and love - often lie just out of reach.

And where secrets - deadly or otherwise - sometimes have a will of their own.