The Daughter He Left Behind

On the night her father is buried, twenty six year old Aaliyah Rahman discovers a letter hidden beneath the lining of his old suitcase. It contains only one sentence: “If you want to know why your mother left, ask the man who paid for her silence.” For seventeen years, Aaliyah has believed her mother abandoned the family without looking back. Her father, Imran, raised her alone in a modest house in Lahore, working himself to exhaustion and refusing to speak about the woman whose photograph he kept locked in his desk. Now he is gone, and the only person who might explain the letter is Faraz Malik, a wealthy businessman whose family has spent decades protecting its reputation. When Aaliyah confronts Faraz, she discovers that her mother's disappearance was connected to a decision made by both families, a decision that destroyed more than one life. The deeper she digs, the more she begins to question the father she worshipped, the mother she resented, and the future she thought she understood. With her younger brother depending on her and a painful attraction growing between her and Faraz's estranged son, Aaliyah must choose between exposing the truth and protecting the fragile remains of her family. Some secrets are buried to protect the innocent. Others are buried because the guilty are still alive. It looks like image creation is temporarily unavailable. Do you want to try something else? Image creation is currently unavailable because your Instant image generation limit has been reached, and the Mini model is text only.