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When Fire Married Ice is a searing, lyrical novel about love, silence, and the cost of finding one's voice. Set against the backdrop of Saudi Arabia's shifting social landscape and the global rise of feminist leadership, the novel follows two people whose love story was never meant to survive the world they lived in-but who carry each other, quietly and irrevocably, through every chapter of their lives. Layla Al-Hariri is a journalist, activist, and former co-founder of a pioneering social innovation fund in Riyadh. Bold, brilliant, and unafraid to speak the truth, Layla begins to rise as a symbol of women's empowerment in the Gulf-until her words cross a line, and the institutions she helped build turn against her. Arrested, silenced, and betrayed, Layla makes a decision that changes everything: she leaves her home, her career, and her husband behind. Omar Al-Fulan is that husband-a thoughtful, reform-minded businessman who believes in change, but fears instability more. When Layla is punished for speaking too loudly, he chooses survival. In the aftermath, Omar stays behind and reshapes their shared legacy into a "faith-aligned" venture fund, publicly successful but morally fractured. Layla becomes a global icon. Omar becomes a man haunted by what he didn't fight for. Years later, their paths cross again at an international summit in Geneva. Layla, now a celebrated author and advocate, delivers a keynote that ends with a verse from the Qur'an: "And We made you into nations and tribes that you may know one another." Her voice cracks on the final word. From the shadows, Omar watches, unseen. After the event, he leaves a letter at her hotel desk-a final act of love, regret, and recognition. "In another world, I would've danced with your fire. But in this one, I had to stay ice to survive." Told in alternating perspectives, When Ice Married Ice traces Layla and Omar's parallel journeys over more than a decade-from Riyadh to Istanbul, from exile to influence, from shared ambition to irreversible distance. The novel explores how two people can deeply love each other yet be shaped by systems that make staying together impossible. There is no romantic resolution here-only a deeper truth: that some loves don't end, they echo. With themes of gender, power, freedom, and the long shadow of unspoken love, The Letter will resonate with readers of Elif Shafak, Tayari Jones, and Jhumpa Lahiri. Intimate and political, personal and global, this novel asks: How do we live with the people we couldn't keep? And what does it mean to finally say goodbye, not with anger-but with understanding?


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798231128921
  • Publisher: Holy Verses of Love Pub
  • Publisher Imprint: Holy Verses of Love Pub
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8231128921
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jul 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: 9 Holy Verses of Love
  • Weight: 154 gr


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