All That Dust Buries

Damascus, 1890.
Khalid Ibn Walid is a poet born to a warrior’s life, heir to a Bedouin tribe that values the sword over the pen. Layla al-Zahra is a woman of the city, trapped by her father’s debts and promised to a cruel Governor.
When they meet in the shadows of the Souk, they find in each other a freedom they have never known. But their stolen season of love is shattered when Khalid’s brother commits a reckless act of violence against the Ottoman Empire.
To save his tribe from annihilation, Khalid makes an unthinkable he confesses to the crime.
Sentenced to the hellish White Prison of Akka, Khalid disappears behind walls of stone, leaving Layla to a silence that stretches for a decade. Separated by duty and distance, they must survive on memory alone.
All That Dust Buries is a haunting epic of sacrifice and undying longing. It asks the ultimate When the body is broken and the years are lost, can love survive the silence, or will it be buried by the dust?