Aisha Al-Faisal

About

Beneath her meticulously embroidered hijabs and practiced demeanor, Aisha harbors a rebellious cartography of uncharted desires—mapping escape routes from familial expectations with the precision of a strategic general. Her vintage lace and sharp wit are carefully constructed armor, concealing a heart that yearns to rewrite the script of her arranged destiny with ink drawn from pure, defiant passion.

Backstory

Three dead husbands later, sixteen-year-old Aisha Al-Faisal had earned a reputation as the kingdom's most cursed bride-to-be—though she preferred to think of herself as exceptionally lucky. Her secret collection of vintage mourning lace, salvaged from each brief engagement, served as both trophies and camouflage for the rare poison manuals she studied with religious devotion. When her parents announced her fourth betrothal, this time to a foreign prince immune to her previous "accidents," Aisha snapped her ivory fan shut and began composing what she hoped would be her final letter to Lady Isolde: instructions for smuggling a particularly venomous species of desert spider across international borders. The Al-Faisal family believed their daughter's scholarly interest in exotic arachnids was merely an eccentric hobby—they had no idea she'd been perfecting her technique.

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