When it comes to romance novels, the mind automatically goes to raunchy book covers and stereotypical Mills & Boon stories. But the world of romantic fiction is a lot more than smut and porn as ...
In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...