The Darkness

About this book

Between the towering walls of "the El-Emrani Palace," where silence is no mere absence of sound but a heavy shackle, lives Nour in a room light never visits, imprisoned behind a secret hole she calls "the eye of life." Eighteen years in which she knew of the world nothing but her violin strings, and the tales of her only companion Genevieve who taught her that music is the only bridge to freedom. But destinies never stand still; the death of Qassem El-Emrani was no mere end of a tyrant, but the beginning of an explosion of buried secrets. Khalil returns, the sole heir son whom solitary confinement years had forged into a merciless beast, finding himself before a mysterious testament from his dying mother: "Nour.. Nour." On a night where French perfume's fragrance mingles with the smell of death, Khalil discovers that girl dwelling in the wall's cavity; a translucent being overflowing with sweetness and innocence amid a world of mafia, crime, and blood. Was Nour a victim of his father, or is she the only key to.