Alina and Malik learned how to love each other in the hardest place possible through prison walls.Their relationship was built on recorded phone calls, letters, visitation rooms, stolen touches, heated arguments, unanswered questions, and a kind of desire that had nowhere to go.Alina knows Malik as the man who calls her “Trouble”—the man who can calm her down, drive her crazy, break through every wall she puts up, and make her question whether loving someone this deeply is a blessing or a beautiful kind of madness.Malik knows Alina as the woman who stayed when staying wasn’t easy.But loving each other from opposite sides of a prison wall comes with rules neither of them created. Every conversation can be monitored. Every visit has an ending. Every touch is restricted. And every disagreement becomes harder when neither of them can simply cross the room and reach for the other.The longer they’re separated, the stronger the tension between them becomes.Their conversations get deeper.Their attraction gets harder to ignore.And the things they can’t do become the things they can’t stop thinking about.As Alina and Malik navigate loyalty, jealousy, temptation, trust, intimacy, and the uncertainty of their future, they discover that sometimes the strongest relationships aren’t tested by distance alone they’re tested by what two people do with all the longing that distance creates.Because one day, Malik will walk out from behind those walls.And when he does, Alina won’t have to imagine what it feels like to finally have him all to herself.Some love stories begin with a first kiss.Theirs begins with years of waiting for one.

Beyond the Walls When Alina answers a message from the boy she once knew, she never expects to fall in love with a man serving a decades-long prison sentence.Their relationship is built on late-night calls, handwritten letters, and dreams that stretch beyond razor wire. But loving someone behind bars means fighting battles no one else sees jealousy, rumors, lonely nights, broken promises, and the fear that the life she’s waiting for may never come.As the years pass, Alina must decide whether love is measured by time… or by peace.Can two hearts survive when one of them is locked away? Or will the prison sentence become hers too?