Being stateless leaves a wound no home can heal.

An emptiness lingers within—a silent ache for a place that no longer exists, for a belonging forever out of reach.

Amid the fury of World War II, Sofia Moretti, a university student living in New York, visits her younger brother at his school, only to encounter a young man who will change her life forever. Handsome, enigmatic, and haunted by exile, Cem is an Ottoman prince whose past is as perilous as it is mysterious.

Drawn together by fate, Sofia—a young woman of strength, elegance, and quiet defiance—must fight not only for love, but for survival. The daughter of an Italian mafia family, she and Cem, the warrior-hearted prince, are swept into a love both impossible and irresistible. From the smoke-choked streets of New York to the sun-scorched battlefields of North Africa, from the war-torn cities of Europe to the timeless alleys of Istanbul, their hearts are tested by the merciless codes of the mafia and Cem’s struggle to reclaim a lost identity.

In a world consumed by war and secrets, love becomes their most dangerous battleground—and the only path to freedom.