At 8, they were the best of friends. At 18, they were the sweetest of lovers. At 28, they were the bitterest of enemies. Dameer Esfendyar al-Badr is the man the universe had only made once - and after that, had just stopped trying. The Crown Prince of the kingdom in exile has long ago forgotten the rules of royalty. Settled in London for the past decade after the exile, he has little interest in his past - even less in the woman who had once held his heart in the palm of her hand. But now he's in Istanbul. And she's here as well. Mahin Arsalan is nothing if not grace and elegance. Having moved on from the devastating aches of the last decade, she is thriving in her new life. Until he comes back, threatening to pull her under the waters she had so desperately tried to master. But nothing is as simple as it is, not when the lies that had descended over the past ten years spill open like cheap wine; not when the love they once shared still sparkled better than the Bosphorus.