Being with someone you don't even know is a lot harder than expected. Can Aliyah cope in a marriage, when her life's only just begun? "It was like he was reading out instructions for me. Ones I had no choice but to follow. I felt hollow as I watched. What was he doing? Why?" Coming home from college one day and Aliyah finds that her life is about to change forever. And she doesn't have a clue why. Forced into a marriage she had no idea about and shipped off to another country, she is about to lose everything. Her dreams. Her friends. Her home. As she embarks on the new journey of her life, tackling all the hurdles that come her way, is there a greater happiness waiting for her on the horizon? And will the secrets that she unravels change her more than even she knows?