At nineteen, Amara Hale’s biggest worry should’ve been getting into uni. Instead, she wakes up in a glass mansion she doesn’t recognise — married to a man she’s never met. Cold-eyed, terrifyingly controlled, and disgustingly rich, Lucien Vieri claims she was taken for her own safety. But nothing about him feels safe. He says: her real husband is hunting her the marriage certificate is real her family betrayed her and she belongs to him now Amara only knows one thing: She was kidnapped — and Lucien is lying. But the deeper she digs, the more her past unravels. Someone forged her identity. Someone planned her capture. And someone wants her dead. Caught between two brutal Mafia empires, Amara is forced to become the wife she never wanted to be — while fighting a war she was never meant to survive. Trusting Lucien might save her life. Loving him might destroy it. But running? Running will kill her.

Seventeen-year-old Malisa Okafor has learned to survive the quiet: a mother who isn’t there, a father who’s only present when the bottle isn’t, and a life in Nottingham that feels heavier every year. Music is her escape, her friends are her shield, and Keon Marshall --- the boy who loves her too softly --- is the only part of her world that feels steady. But Malisa is hiding cracks she refuses to look at… And Keon is hiding a past that’s about to break into the present. When secrets start slipping through the cracks ---at home, at college, and inside herself --- Malisa is forced to face the truth she’s been running from: You can only outrun your ruin for so long before it catches up. A gritty, emotional UK drama about love, survival, and the weight of growing up before you're ready.