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The Price of Defiance
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Publisher: Scarlett Vaughn
Published: Jan 5 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Price of Defiance is a powerful fiction novel set in the unforgiving deserts of Oman, where a young woman's will to survive collides with tradition, power, and captivity.
Banished from her community for the circumstances of her birth, Aminah grows up on the margins of society, marked by shame she did not choose. When an arranged marriage threatens to bind her to a man old enough to be her father-cruel, repulsive, and inescapable-she makes a desperate choice: she runs. Fleeing into the vast desert under the cover of night, Aminah risks everything for freedom, only to face death beneath the burning sun.
Rescued at the brink of collapse by the entourage of Sheikh Kamal Hussain, Aminah believes her ordeal may finally be over. Instead, her fate takes a darker turn. Rather than returning her home, the powerful and decadent sheikh purchases her and brings her to his opulent palace-where gold-lined walls conceal domination, control, and moral decay.
But Aminah is not broken.
Defiant, sharp-willed, and unwilling to submit, she refuses to become another silent possession. Every rule she challenges, every boundary she crosses, threatens the sheikh's authority-and her own survival. As tension builds between captor and captive, Aminah learns that escaping the desert was only the beginning. The true battle lies within the palace, where resistance comes at a terrible cost.
Some chains are forged in iron.
Others are made of sand and gold.
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