Handsome, brilliant, and heir to one of Istanbul’s most powerful families, Erkan is destined for life at the top. Erkan’s father wants him to take over the family business, so he suppresses his true passion, music, to study law at Cambridge. But Erkan is just counting the days until he can escape his father’s control and live freely.
After his closest friend dies during military service — failed to go with him when he asked— he is consumed by guilt. Convinced that he failed his friend when it mattered most, Erkan makes a radical decision. He enlists as a common soldier and volunteers to serve in the very region where his friend lost his life. His father agrees, on one condition: When Erkan returns, he must agree to a strategic marriage and take over the company, which is on the brink of collapse.
Just days before completing his service, Erkan saves a young village woman, Dicle, from bandits and, later, an “honor killing” by her own brothers. To save her life, Erkan impulsively marries her. Later he will quietly divorce Dicle and set her up comfortably in Istanbul, but Erkan’s plans go out the window when he falls for the unassuming village girl. A marriage born of mercy becomes a dangerous romance that could destroy Erkan’s whole family, as the former “the favored heir” wrestles with impossible love, duty, and his own conscience.
