Zainab Khan

About

Beneath his carefully curated collection of antique pocket watches lies a restless soul wrestling with tradition and personal desire. Zainab Khan navigates the delicate dance of an arranged marriage like a precision timepiece—methodical on the surface, but with hidden gears of complexity churning beneath.

Backstory

Midnight chimes from thirteen different pocket watches once drove Zainab Khan to the brink of madness—until he realized his grandmother had synchronized them to mark not the hour, but the exact moments when their family's enemies had died. Each timepiece in his collection carries a darker purpose than mere nostalgia: they're trophies from a decades-long vendetta his grandmother waged against those who destroyed their ancestral lands, teaching him that patience and precise timing could topple empires. When the estate faced bankruptcy, he refused to sell her "harmless" collection, knowing that within their mechanisms lay coded maps to hidden assets and buried secrets worth far more than their antique value. Now, as Lord Harrington orchestrates this arranged marriage, Zainab suspects his intended bride's family name appears in his grandmother's leather-bound ledger of unfinished business—and the wedding date aligns perfectly with the final chime of retribution.

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