*Ella never wanted to be a wife. She only wanted to survive.*Ella works nights in a small-town bar. Innocent, untouched, different from every other girl in that place. She works twice, talks with colleagues, tries to live normal.Until the dead of night she meets Fahad.Rich, handsome, charming — and dangerous. He kisses her on their way to see her boss, Victor. She thinks it's just business.It is a murder.She watches Fahad kill Victor. And when he sees her, he calls her name.Ella runs.For one year she runs and hides, always looking behind her. Because she is sure — Fahad wants her dead for what she saw.But running leads her straight into the hands of traffickers. For two years she is moved from country to country, bought and sold, until the day a man comes to buy people.His name is Russo. He is into trafficking himself. He is not a good man. He buys her with a few other girls.But Ella's wahala is just starting.*Almost a century later.*Lily, a poor, bullied, broken girl who isn't social with her family at first, goes on holiday to her grandmother's old, leaking house after a storm damages the roof. They cannot stay. Grandma takes her a few miles away to her great-grandmother's place.Great-grandmother's house is not what Lily expected. Grandma's house is old and broken. Great-grandmother's place is an EMPIRE. Big, guarded, full of gold and fancy dresses.Inside lives a 97-year-old woman. She barely sees. She barely walks. But she is still holding very well. Most of the time she sits and discusses with Lily about life as a poor girl — scrubbing floors, selling things just to make ends meet. She talks about survival.Lily loves mars her model and loves reading mafia books. She has always fantasized about being a mafia wife. She thinks this empire is just like her mars life and her book.In a storage room full of gold and fancy dresses, Lily finds a locked box. Inside is something. But it is locked with a padlock.To see what is inside, she must find the key to the padlock.Whatever is inside will change her life, and her whole fantasy of being a mafia wife, completely.*This is ELLA'S DIARY — BOOK 1: How She Met Fahad.*18+ | Murder Witness | Human Trafficking | Mafia | Dark Romance | Hidden Identity | Family Secret

*Ella never wanted to be a wife. She only wanted to survive.*Ella works nights in a small-town bar. Innocent, untouched, different from every other girl in that place. She works twice, talks with colleagues, tries to live normal.Until the dead of night she meets Fahad.Rich, handsome, charming — and dangerous. He kisses her on their way to see her boss, Victor. She thinks it's just business.It is a murder.She watches Fahad kill Victor. And when he sees her, he calls her name.Ella runs.For one year she runs and hides, always looking behind her. Because she is sure — Fahad wants her dead for what she saw.But running leads her straight into the hands of traffickers. For two years she is moved from country to country, bought and sold, until the day a man comes to buy people.His name is Russo. He is into trafficking himself. He is not a good man. He buys her with a few other girls.But Ella's wahala is just starting.*Almost a century later.*Lily, a poor, bullied, broken girl who isn't social with her family at first, goes on holiday to her grandmother's old, leaking house after a storm damages the roof. They cannot stay. Grandma takes her a few miles away to her great-grandmother's place.Great-grandmother's house is not what Lily expected. Grandma's house is old and broken. Great-grandmother's place is an EMPIRE. Big, guarded, full of gold and fancy dresses.Inside lives a 97-year-old woman. She barely sees. She barely walks. But she is still holding very well. Most of the time she sits and discusses with Lily about life as a poor girl — scrubbing floors, selling things just to make ends meet. She talks about survival.Lily loves mars her model and loves reading mafia books. She has always fantasized about being a mafia wife. She thinks this empire is just like her mars life and her book.In a storage room full of gold and fancy dresses, Lily finds a locked box. Inside is something. But it is locked with a padlock.To see what is inside, she must find the key to the padlock.Whatever is inside will change her life, and her whole fantasy of being a mafia wife, completely.*This is ELLA'S DIARY — BOOK 1: How She Met Fahad.*18+ | Murder Witness | Human Trafficking | Mafia | Dark Romance | Hidden Identity | Family Secret

*Ella never wanted to be a wife. She only wanted to survive.*Ella works nights in a small-town bar. Innocent, untouched, different from every other girl in that place. She works twice, talks with colleagues, tries to live normal.Until the dead of night she meets Fahad.Rich, handsome, charming — and dangerous. He kisses her on their way to see her boss, Victor. She thinks it's just business.It is a murder.She watches Fahad kill Victor. And when he sees her, he calls her name.Ella runs.For one year she runs and hides, always looking behind her. Because she is sure — Fahad wants her dead for what she saw.But running leads her straight into the hands of traffickers. For two years she is moved from country to country, bought and sold, until the day a man comes to buy people.His name is Russo. He is into trafficking himself. He is not a good man. He buys her with a few other girls.But Ella's wahala is just starting.*Almost a century later.*Lily, a poor, bullied, broken girl who isn't social with her family at first, goes on holiday to her grandmother's old, leaking house after a storm damages the roof. They cannot stay. Grandma takes her a few miles away to her great-grandmother's place.Great-grandmother's house is not what Lily expected. Grandma's house is old and broken. Great-grandmother's place is an EMPIRE. Big, guarded, full of gold and fancy dresses.Inside lives a 97-year-old woman. She barely sees. She barely walks. But she is still holding very well. Most of the time she sits and discusses with Lily about life as a poor girl — scrubbing floors, selling things just to make ends meet. She talks about survival.Lily loves mars her model and loves reading mafia books. She has always fantasized about being a mafia wife. She thinks this empire is just like her mars life and her book.In a storage room full of gold and fancy dresses, Lily finds a locked box. Inside is something. But it is locked with a padlock.To see what is inside, she must find the key to the padlock.Whatever is inside will change her life, and her whole fantasy of being a mafia wife, completely.*This is ELLA'S DIARY — BOOK 1: How She Met Fahad.*18+ | Murder Witness | Human Trafficking | Mafia | Dark Romance | Hidden Identity | Family Secret

*Ella never wanted to be a wife. She only wanted to survive.*Ella works nights in a small-town bar. Innocent, untouched, different from every other girl in that place. She works twice, talks with colleagues, tries to live normal.Until the dead of night she meets Fahad.Rich, handsome, charming — and dangerous. He kisses her on their way to see her boss, Victor. She thinks it's just business.It is a murder.She watches Fahad kill Victor. And when he sees her, he calls her name.Ella runs.For one year she runs and hides, always looking behind her. Because she is sure — Fahad wants her dead for what she saw.But running leads her straight into the hands of traffickers. For two years she is moved from country to country, bought and sold, until the day a man comes to buy people.His name is Russo. He is into trafficking himself. He is not a good man. He buys her with a few other girls.But Ella's wahala is just starting.*Almost a century later.*Lily, a poor, bullied, broken girl who isn't social with her family at first, goes on holiday to her grandmother's old, leaking house after a storm damages the roof. They cannot stay. Grandma takes her a few miles away to her great-grandmother's place.Great-grandmother's house is not what Lily expected. Grandma's house is old and broken. Great-grandmother's place is an EMPIRE. Big, guarded, full of gold and fancy dresses.Inside lives a 97-year-old woman. She barely sees. She barely walks. But she is still holding very well. Most of the time she sits and discusses with Lily about life as a poor girl — scrubbing floors, selling things just to make ends meet. She talks about survival.Lily loves mars her model and loves reading mafia books. She has always fantasized about being a mafia wife. She thinks this empire is just like her mars life and her book.In a storage room full of gold and fancy dresses, Lily finds a locked box. Inside is something. But it is locked with a padlock.To see what is inside, she must find the key to the padlock.Whatever is inside will change her life, and her whole fantasy of being a mafia wife, completely.*This is ELLA'S DIARY — BOOK 1: How She Met Fahad.*18+ | Murder Witness | Human Trafficking | Mafia | Dark Romance | Hidden Identity | Family Secret