Description

Laylah Mostafa has never disobeyed her parents, that is, until Sam Hart, a blue-eyed astrophysicist, t moves in across the road. Sam is a born and bred New Yorker with a Kiwi mother. After devastation tore his family apart, they move to New Zealand for a fresh start. Laylah and Sam's friendship quickly blossoms to love. A love that is deep and all-encompassing, like the night sky. A love where you are free to be exactly who you are, where you belong. Always. Neither Laylah nor Sam has ever known a love like this.

But life is rarely this easy, and Laylah's conservative Muslim parents refuse to accept Sam. So Laylah must decide where her duty lies. To her own happiness? Or the happiness of her parents, who sacrificed everything when they travelled from worn-torn Syria to New Zealand. Ultimately, Laylah must decide: can she simply belong to herself?